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Transportation Security Administration head John S. Pistole on Thursday defended his agency’s decision to allow airline passengers to carry on certain pocket knives and sporting equipment, saying those objects don’t present the kind of threat the TSA was created to address. He faced an audience of lawmakers skeptical about the policy, and the process through [...]

Tribal leaders are reviewing a draft bill seeking federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina in hopes of introducing the legislation next month. Chairman Paul Brooks and several Tribal Council members recently met with U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson of Concord, whose 8th Congressional District is home to most of tribe’s 55,000 members. Hudson, [...]

U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson stopped in Linwood on Wednesday afternoon as part of his 8th Congressional District Farm Tour to update local farm bureaus on the Farm Bill as well as get farmers’ feedback on issues important to them, such as immigration reform and the elimination of estate taxes. The freshman Republican congressman from Concord, [...]

District 8 Congressman Richard Hudson has been going up the country this week. As part of a three-day farm tour, Hudson took questions from Scotland County farmers on a range of issues Tuesday morning at Laurinburg’s Hagler Farms. Discussion centered around the upcoming farm bill and federal spending. Recently appointed to the House Committee on [...]

U.S. Representative Richard Hudson, from North Carolina’s 8th Congressional, is looking to permanently eliminate the death tax, also known as the inheritance tax or the estate tax, that is imposed on the transfer of taxable estates of a deceased person. Hudson introduced H.R. 483, the Farmers Against Crippling Taxes (FACT) Act, to the Congressional Committee [...]

Brandon Cupp had five AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifles on his shelves at Cerberus Firearms Wednesday. He doesn’t expect them to last the month. Cupp, owner of the Jake Alexander Boulevard gun store, said he specifically targeted the guns for purchase after a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school last month. Distributors have stopped shipping firearms [...]

President Obama gave the last press conference of his first term on Monday, setting the stage for a new term that has the potential to look a lot like the old one. Just as it was after the 2010 midterm elections, the president finds himself negotiating with a Republican-held House with a large batch of fresh [...]