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Today, Rep. Larry Bucshon visited Mount Vernon High School students participating in the SIFMA Foundation’s Capitol Hill Challenge™ program, supported by Charles Schwab.  This national 14-week financial education competition pairs individual members of Congress and financial capability programming with public schools in every… Read more »

Indiana Congressman Larry Bucshon has released a statement on the passing of United States Senator Richard Lugar. Bucshon says Lugar was dedicated to the betterment of America and exemplified the dignity of a true statesman every day. “I got to know Senator Richard Lugar during my first term in Congress, and it was an honor and a… Read more »

Reactions to the 400-page Mueller report are unsurprisingly divided along political lines, with many Republicans backing the President while opponents called for further scrutiny and investigation. Thursday afternoon, Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) held a press conference responding to the Mueller report's findings. “I’m still going… Read more »

The unemployment rate in the Hoosier State held steady at nearly four percent last month, but community leaders here in Evansville are hoping to improve that number. The C.K. Newsome Center offered a perfect environment for folks on the hunt for a job with 350 employers available. U.S. Congressman Larry Buschon partnered with Work… Read more »

“Consumer protection” isn’t a phrase you’ll find on the resume of a person who devises dishonest, meaningless soundbites like, “Net neutrality is about government takeover of the internet.” But most Washington lawmakers don’t really care what a soundbite means or whether it’s they’re true. It just needs to be catchy, maybe inspire a… Read more »

The House voted Thursday to reauthorize a 25-year-old law that helps victims of domestic and sexual violence, despite complaints by Republicans that Democrats were politicizing the popular law by expanding gun control. The bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act includes a provision making it easier to take away guns from… Read more »

The House Energy & Commerce Committee late Wednesday passed five bills related to generic drug competition, two of which were slightly tweaked to make them bipartisan. Passed by a unanimous 51-0 vote, HR 965, the "Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act of 2019," introduced by six representatives… Read more »

CMS’s Innovation Center “will really be the playing field” for developments in 2019 in an effort to move away from fee-for-service medicine and create new value-based care models, Robert Blaser, director of public policy for the Renal Physicians Association, said in a presentation here. The first target will be development of a… Read more »

February welcomed the annual NAHU conference in Washington D.C. and what an experience it was for everyone involved! The nation’s capital has an incredible energy like no other city. Just walking through the historic streets somehow uplifts the spirits. D.C. is a remarkable place to people watch. It is somehow inspiring to observe this… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Protecting babies who survive an abortion is the goal of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Some Hoosier lawmakers are supporting the act and have signed a petition to bring it to a vote in the U.S. House. “This bill is designed to ensure any baby who is born alive after an attempted abortion receives… Read more »