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Heavily guarded in war-torn Afghanistan, 8th District Rep. Larry Bucshon met elite fighters, traveled by Blackhawk helicopter and dined in a palace with the president. The November trip with six other members of Congress had been kept secret for security reasons. Bucshon's office disclosed it late Monday afternoon, after he was back on… Read more »

Dr. Larry Bucshon recently traveled to Afghanistan with six other members of Congress.  “It’s one thing to attend briefings and classified updates in Washington on our operations and efforts to ensure peace around the world, but it is quite another to see it first-hand and hear from commanders and troops on the ground,” he… Read more »

The situation in Afghanistan is "worse than [he] thought" says Indiana Congressman Jim Banks after a recent trip there and is asking President Trump to visit the region to see for himself. Banks was part of a congressional delegation that went last week to Afghanistan which included fellow Indiana Congressman Larry Bucshon. Banks was… Read more »

Eighteen years after American troops first entered Afghanistan, the country remains in a precarious state. That is one of the lessons U.S. Rep. Darren Soto drew from a recent five-day visit to the Asian nation as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation. A terrorist attack killed two doctors while Soto was in the country, and a… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Jim Banks said Wednesday that war-torn Afghanistan “feels like a more dangerous place” than when he was stationed there in 2014 and 2015 as an officer in the Navy Reserve. Banks, R-3rd, led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Afghanistan this week to receive briefings and show support for U.S. troops deployed… Read more »

When President Donald Trump rolled out an ambitious pilot program to lower the costs of physician-administered drugs in late October, policy experts expected the same swift condemnation Congress and the health care industry directed at former President Barack Obama’s Part B demonstration plan. But so far, at least, the outrage hasn’t… Read more »

Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) on Friday criticized a drug pricing proposal President Trump made last month, marking some of the first public resistance to the move from congressional Republicans.  Bucshon told The Hill that Trump’s proposal to lower some drug prices in Medicare by tying them to cheaper prices in other countries is… Read more »

After clashing over diagnostics regulations for more than two decades, lab industry players and the US Food and Drug Administration seem willing to work toward a legislative solution to a longstanding controversy. House Representatives Larry Bucshon (R-IN) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) have worked with diagnostics and lab industry… Read more »

Students at Honey Creek Middle School saw the heart of Gene Griffin — and were invited to walk a few steps in his shoes — when he shared Friday morning what Veterans Day means to him for the school’s annual program recognizing the service and sacrifice of America’s veterans. His son, U.S. Army Sgt. Dale Griffin, died in Afghanistan… Read more »

Today, Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch announced the diversification achieved with grant funds from the Office of Economic Adjustment, which is part of the U.S. Department of Defense. "Collaboration and successful partnerships are taking Indiana's defense sector to the Next Level, and I am inspired by the work being done in our state,"… Read more »