Chuck Edwards

New mobile office hours below Stop by to ask questions about Hurricane Helene recovery and receive assistance with federal agencies including FEMA Visit https://t.co/kemBT0S27l for more information If you can’t join us and you or someone you know is having problems with FEMA, please call our office at 223-FIX-FEMA

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The Blue Ridge Parkway is reopening six years ahead of schedule following Hurricane Helene! Through state and federal resources and strong partnerships, Western North Carolina is making significant progress in recovery. This milestone restores access to one of our region’s most treasured landmarks and supports the local businesses and communities that depend on it.

In FY2025, the VA permanently housed 51,936 homeless Veterans — the highest total in seven years! This progress reflects coordination between the VA and Congress to put resources where they're needed most, including right here in Western North Carolina, where our office has closed nearly 600 VA cases for constituents since 2023. If you or someone you know needs assistance, please call 865-EDWARDS.

I voted for H.R. 1 because rural communities deserve access to quality health care, and that starts with making sure our providers have the tools they need. This funding will help expand mental health and substance use services and give rural providers access to technology that can improve the way they deliver care. This is an important investment in rural North Carolina and the patients who call these communities home. https://t.co/7oRjHwvC3e

Two years later, we’re still working. https://t.co/FlxIuaej7E

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Two years ago today, Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina. Our communities have shown incredible strength over the past two years, but recovery takes time. There’s still work ahead and I’ll continue working to ensure that Western North Carolina has the resources and support needed to finish the job.

Two years ago, Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina and changed our lives here in the mountains. Our communities have shown tremendous strength and resilience, and we have made significant progress in rebuilding. But the work isn’t finished. I will continue working with our federal, state and local partners to make sure Western North Carolina has the resources it needs to finish the job. Watch my full interview below ⬇️

Recovery is personal. Over the past two years, our office has helped thousands of Western North Carolinians navigate FEMA and other federal agencies and we’ve closed more than 6,000 cases. If you or someone you know needs assistance, call us at 865-EDWARDS https://t.co/OsoR5Sufl7

Nearly $14.5 million in FEMA reimbursement funds are headed to communities across NC-11, including Henderson, Yancey, Mitchell, Madison, Haywood, Buncombe and McDowell counties, to support permanent repairs and continued Hurricane Helene recovery. 🚨 https://t.co/TG45U3MtKQ

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Investing in rural health care means investing in the future of Western North Carolina. I supported $1 million in Community Project Funding for Blue Ridge Community Health Services and Mountain Community Health Partnership to expand access to care and strengthen our rural health care workforce.

Following my letter to Secretary Rollins, I’m glad to see @USDA preserve the Southern Research Station in Asheville and Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in Macon County. These institutions are critical to Western North Carolina, especially as we continue recovering from Hurricane Helene.

Rural health care requires a strong workforce. I supported the FY27 LHHS bill, which provides $1.43 billion to strengthen the health care workforce and connect providers with rural communities that need them.

“We the People.” Three words that changed the world. On Constitution Day, we celebrate the document that protects our freedoms, upholds the rule of law, and keeps government accountable to the people. Read it. Know it. Defend it. 🇺🇸

Walking to votes tonight, a reporter asked how I felt about Congress adjourning for several weeks. Hollow—and frustrated. There is far too much work left undone for congressional leadership to send us home. We weren’t elected to leave Washington when the work gets hard. We were elected to get it done.

China is working to expand its influence around the world, and the United States needs to provide countries with a strong alternative. At today’s National Security and Related Programs hearing, I asked USTDA leadership how Congress can help ensure our partners have access to American investment and technology rather than becoming dependent on China.

Jake Jarvis, a U.S. Air Force veteran from Saluda, stepped up to serve his neighbors after Hurricane Helene, bringing his team, equipment, and expertise to help families begin rebuilding. Thank you, Jake, for continuing to answer the call when your neighbors need you most. https://t.co/on93eFAixn

Congress has a responsibility to make sure taxpayer dollars are being used efficiently. Today, I asked GAO what Congress can do to strengthen oversight and transparency of Economy Act agreements. https://t.co/fNBZDRLnUC

CMS needs more options than shutting down a hospital’s Medicare and Medicaid participation. My Health Care Accountability and Enforcement Act gives CMS targeted tools to require corrective action, increase oversight and hold hospitals accountable while protecting access to care.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congressman Chuck Edwards (NC-11) announced that he has filed a formal submission with the Office of Congressional Conduct against House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest and Ranking Member Mark DeSaulnier, alleging that they circumvented the Committee’s own rules to recommend his censure. “The Ethics Committee demanded that I be punished for supposedly violating the ‘letter and spirit’ of House rules while its own leaders treated those same rules as optional,”Edwards said.“There was nothing ethical about this process. They decided the outcome, adopted their report before receiving my response, denied me the procedures designed to test their accusations, and then publicly attacked my character based on findings that were never subjected to an adjudicatory hearing or the required clear-and-convincing-evidence standard.” According to the complaint, the Committee voted to adopt its report on July 22, 2026, 12 days before receiving Edwards’ formal response. The Committee did not provide the draft report to Edwards’ counsel until July 31. By that point, its factual findings, credibility determinations, conclusions, and recommendation of censure had already been approved. “Allowing me to append a response to a decision they had already made was not due process, and it shamelessly abandons the Committee's claim to 'provide a fair procedural framework for the conduct of the Committee's activities," Edwards said. “It was window dressing intended to create the appearance of fairness after the verdict had already been written.” The complaint further alleges that the Committee relied upon a purported waiver to bypass the regular disciplinary process even though Edwards never executed a waiver satisfying Committee Rule 26(b). That rule expressly requires any waiver request to be in writing, signed by the respondent, and to identify the specific procedural rights or steps being waived. Edwards submitted and signed no such document. “Chairman Guest and Ranking Member DeSaulnier cannot manufacture a waiver that does not exist,”Edwards said. “Nor can they use an oral communication with counsel as a license to discard their own rules. Rule 26(b) is unambiguous: a waiver must be written, signed by the respondent, and specific about the rights being waived. None of that occurred.” Without a valid waiver, the Committee proceeded without establishing an Investigative Subcommittee, issuing a Statement of Alleged Violation, permitting an answer to specific charges, conducting an adjudicatory hearing, allowing Edwards to confront adverse testimony and introduce evidence, determining that any count was proved by clear and convincing evidence, or holding a sanction hearing. The Committee’s report found no sexual activity, no explicit sexual proposition, no quid pro quo harassment, and no violation of federal sexual-harassment law. Nevertheless, it recommended censure based upon broad interpretations of the “letter and spirit” of House rules. “They could not prove that I violated the law or identify sexual conduct,” Edwards said.“So they relied on insinuation, selective evidence, and subjective assumptions—while denying me the very process their rules establish for separating facts from accusations. They invoked the ‘spirit’ of the rules to condemn me while violating the unmistakable letter of their own.” The OCC complaint asks for an independent investigation into whether Guest and DeSaulnier violated House standards by authorizing a sanction recommendation through a process the Committee’s rules did not permit. It also requests preservation and examination of all communications concerning the purported waiver, correction of the public record, appropriate disciplinary action, and a public apology for the grave and lasting damage inflicted upon Edwards’ character, dignity, reputation, family, and public service. “No Member of Congress, Republican or Democrat, should be subjected to a process in which the investigators write the verdict first and hear the defense later,” Edwards said.“If the Ethics Committee cannot be trusted to follow its own rules when a Member’s reputation and dignity are at stake, then it has forfeited the moral authority to sit in judgment of anyone else. Chairman Guest and Ranking Member DeSaulnier must be held accountable.”

In Western North Carolina, we know that distance can be a real barrier to accessing the health care you and your family need. The Rural Health Transformation Program is helping address that challenge by bringing health care services directly into rural communities and schools. These investments will expand access to care for children and families, strengthen our rural health care system, and make sure folks can get the care they need close to home. https://t.co/1at47iY0NC

Access to health care shouldn’t depend on how far you live from a major city. I supported $1 million for Mountain Community Health Partnership’s Burnsville Health Center to help expand primary care services for families in Yancey County. https://t.co/TstFPXV84v

Twenty-five years ago, our nation faced unimaginable loss. Today, I join the country in remembering the nearly 3,000 lives lost, honoring the first responders who ran toward the danger, and reaffirming that we will Never Forget. https://t.co/tVoDW4jGGM