The National Journal ranked Foxx as the most conservative member of North Carolina's representatives and as more conservative than 91.3 percent of all House members.

Foxx has voted with the majority of House Republicans 89.9 percent of the time in the 111th Congress.

In the House, Foxx attracted attention when she was one of only 11 members who voted against the $52 billion relief package for victims of 2005's Hurricane Katrina. For a local project in Sparta, N.C., however, she took credit for spending $500,000 on a teapot museum. President Bush criticized it as wasteful spending. Foxx now speaks out against such earmarks.

Health-Care Reform

In January 2011, Foxx voted to overturn President Obama's health-care overhaul, one of the first acts done of the 112th Congress.

Accordingly, Foxx is against "ObamaCare" and fears that it would damage the accessibility, affordability and quality of health care for the nation.

She believes in patient-centered reforms but is against tax hikes and what she describes as "taxpayer-funded abortions."

Social Security

Ever since Foxx was elected to Congress in 2004, she has supported comprehensive Social Security reform, rather than temporary, short-term fixes.

Foxx said, "Political posturing and pandering to special interests should have no place in our discussion of how to ensure that Social Security and Medicare are here for both our grandchildren and today's retirees."

She believes in the importance of Social Security, but sees the system as hard to navigate and outdated. And she doesn't believe that increasing taxes to deal with funding shortfalls is the answer.

Foxx has cos-ponsored many bills in the House that would reform Social Security. One of these bills was the "SMART" Act of 2009, which would have amended parts of the Social Security Act to allow employers to establish personal Social Security accounts under a payroll deduction plan for all employees.

Budget and Tax Relief

In just the first month of the 112th Congress, Foxx has already voted to cut congressional budgets by 5 percent and to slash public funding for presidential campaigns.

The ever-conservative Foxx is of the philosophy that less taxation and less deficit spending is the best way that the government and nation can operate.

She desires transparency in government spending, also, and in 2009 introduced a bill that would require federal agencies to report how much they spend each year on services provided in languages other than English.

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