DTH graphic. Clockwise, from top left: N.C. Sen. Valerie Foushee, U.S. Rep. David Price, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, Commissioner Renee Price, Mayor Pam Hemminger, N.C. Rep. Verla Insko and N.C. Rep. Graig Meyer. Photos courtesy of Foushee, David Price, Tillis, Ken Bennett, Renee Price, Hemminger, Insko and Meyer.

Your representatives in D.C., N.C. and O.C.

By Kelli Rainer | Jul. 31

These government officials represent UNC students at the local, state and national levels.

When asked about a new COVID-19 stimulus bill, Senator Thom Tillis explains there is "no question Congress will pass another coronavirus relief bill after the election" on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020.

Tillis declares narrow victory, dispelling predictions of N.C. flipping U.S. Senate

By Henry Haney | Nov. 4

Richard Burr wins the North Carolina Senatorial Race. He held his election party at the Forsyth Country Club in Winston-Salem.

Sen. Richard Burr is under investigation for insider trading. What happens next?

By Taylor Heeden | May. 27, 2020

Students at N.C. Central University, one of UNC system's five HBCUs. Photo courtesy of Keisha Williams.

Tillis and other N.C. representatives sponsor bills to promote HBCUs

By Andreamarie Efthymiou | Feb. 18, 2019

Fourty-eight North Carolina students, including seven from UNC-Chapel Hill joined hundreds of people in Washington, D.C. to meet members of Congress to lobby for reproductive rights and ask Congress to get rid of the Global Gag Rule. Photo courtesy of Amanda Murray.

NC students meet with lawmakers in Washington to protest 'Global Gag Rule'

By Mitra Norowzi | Mar. 28, 2018

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, while he was speaker of the House of the N.C. General Assembly in 2012.

Tillis' new bill would allow HBCUs more financial flexibility

By Ryan Smoot | Feb. 20, 2018

Shari Unger kisses Melissa Goldsmith as Giulianna Cerbono lights candles at a memorial at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday, February 18, 2018. A large number of people visited the site to honor the students and teachers killed in a shooting spree on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/TNS)

Here's how NC legislators responded to the Parkland school shooting

By Jonny Cook | Feb. 19, 2018

In response to the Florida school shooting, some legislators are tweeting about arming school faculty.

A home in Windsor airs out along with all its contents after it was hit in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew.

Budget deal promises millions for hurricane damage relief

By Blake Weaver | Feb. 12, 2018

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, and U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, announced in a press release Thursday there would be an additional $125 million from the recent budget deal for North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Matthew, which hit the state in 2016.

Gov. Roy Cooper, then a gubernatorial candidate, spoke at the Obama rally on campus Nov. 2016. Cooper asked the Trump administration to give North Carolina an exemption from the off-shore oil drilling.

Proposal could open off-limit offshore areas to drilling. What does that mean for N.C.?

By Emily Davis | Jan. 16, 2018

A proposal to open off-limits federal offshore areas to drilling was announced on Jan. 4 by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.

Congress' DACA replacement debate continues for fourth month

By Emma Boggess | Jan. 10, 2018

Four months have passed since President Donald Trump’s September announcement repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and Congress has yet to find a legislative solution to the problem.

Tillis, Burr oppose Trump's EPA nomination

By Emma Boggess | Nov. 28, 2017

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., have expressed opposition towards Michael L. Dourson, President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, debating former Sen. Kay Hagan, D-NC, on Oct. 7, 2014.

NC politicians among top recipients of NRA funding

By Georgia Wieland-Stanford | Oct. 8, 2017

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., are among the top four recipients of funding from the National Rifle Association, according to a ranking released by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Tillis op-ed promotes NC tax reform as a model for federal action

By Blake Weaver | Sep. 24, 2017

As Congress works to overhaul the United States tax system, one local leader hopes to use North Carolina as an example.

A UNC student lights a joint filled with marijuana as part of a photo illustration. U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, co-sponsored a bill that would legalize medical marijuana.

Republicans and Democrats come together to sponsor new medical marijuana bill

By Michael Meeks | Sep. 20, 2017

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, along with four other Republican and Democratic senators, co-sponsored the Marijuana Effective Drug Study Act of 2017.

Sen. Thom Tillis calls for bipartisan cooperation in U.S. Congress

By Luke Bollinger | Jan. 24, 2017

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., called for Republicans to reach across the aisle to work toward meaningful solutions rather than mistakenly assuming there was a conservative mandate, in an op-ed in The Charlotte Observer last week.

Tillis endorses Rubio as primary race heats up in NC

By CJ Farris | Feb. 24, 2016

As the North Carolina primaries approach, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. has come out in support of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

UNC student political groups organize in preparation for 2016 election

By CJ Farris | Sep. 17, 2015

As the country prepares for the presidential primaries in 2016, political groups on campus are organizing in an effort to increase the amount of voters who reach the polls. The results of the 2012 election showed low youth turnout because of disenchantment and increased obstacles to vote.

NC teachers to receive one-time $750 bonus

By Nick Niedzwiadek | Aug. 26, 2015

By Nick Niedzwiadek Senior Writer The state’s two-month overdue budget glacially neared completion Wednesday as the legislature reached an agreement on teacher pay. Teachers across the state will receive a one-time $750 bonus this year as opposed to the House’s original plan to give all teachers a 2 percent raise, according to documents provided by Sen.

Burr, Tillis among republicans who sent controversial letter to Iranian leaders

By Corey Risinger | Mar. 15, 2015

U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis of North Carolina were among a coalition of 47 Republican senators to send a controversial letter to Iranian leaders in the midst of potential nuclear negotiations.

Offshore drilling might be reality in North Carolina

By Corey Risinger | Jan. 29, 2015

Five years after the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, thoughts of offshore oil drilling are slipping back into the long-term plans of North Carolina’s members of Congress and the White House.