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YouthBuild Louisville, a nonprofit organization that provides job training and educational opportunities for at-risk people ages 16 to 24, has received $100,000 in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

WASHINGTON - Fresh from a tactical victory on health-care reform in the Senate, the Obama administration Monday pressed its case for passing legislation that it said would provide coverage for 654,000 Kentuckians now without insurance.

The first Republican to officially enter the race to become Kentucky's Third District Congressman says he's ready for the challenge.

Louisville's congressman, John Yarmuth , now in the middle of his second two-year term, has an official opponent in next year's race for federal representative.

Todd Lally, a UPS pilot and former state House candidate, announced Friday that he would join the field of Republican candidates who want to challenge U.S. Rep.

The 8,000 Kentuckians due a 20-week extension of unemployment compensation won't see their checks for at least a month, while a similar number of Hoosiers could start getting their payments as early as next week.

In his hopes of greatest brevity, here is Mitch McConnell's one-page, upcoming health care reform Senate bill: "The current system needs to be left alone.

In a file photo, Rep. Jared Polis discusses healthcare reform at a town hall meeting Sept.

I only hope that those who believe in political correctness and allowing people to downgrade and threaten our very existence would suffer the same pain as those families from Fort Hood who have lost loved ones due to some crazy nut who was allowed to roam freely and finally complete his threats against this great country.

Neither President Obama nor any member of Congress would argue that the health reform bill passed Saturday night by the House is flawless.

Today, Congressman John Yarmuth , Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Ken Lucas, and representatives from the Legal Aid Society of Louisville announced that the Legal Services Corporation has awarded a $79,000 grant to the Legal Aid Society to provide legal assistance to low-income veterans in Kentucky.

U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth gave a $79,000 check to the Legal Aid Society of Louisville Tuesday to help the organization reach out to veterans.

Local leaders are hoping a new grant will help veterans with legal advice. There are 344,000 veterans in Kentucky and nearly 1/3 of the state's veterans don't have the legal representatives they need.

Governor Steve Beshear joined Congressman John Yarmuth and Mayor Jerry Abramson today to announce that new federal stimulus money will help enroll more children in Jefferson County in the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program .

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The only member of Kentucky's Congressional delegation to vote in favor of the health care reform bill believes a similar measure will pass the Senate.

WASHINGTON - For area Democratic lawmakers, the House vote Saturday on health care reform was an historic opportunity to fulfill a 100-year-old progressive vision of universal coverage for all Americans.

Rep. Ben Chandler, D-Versailles, who faced sharp pushback from conservatives over his failure to hold health care reform town halls during the August recess, was one of 39 Democrats to vote Saturday evening against the historic health care overhaul at the top of the Obama administration's domestic agenda.

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a sweeping health care reform bill late Saturday night, 220-215. Third District Congressman John Yarmuth was the only Kentucky representative who voted for the bill.

Long-awaited legislation to replace three federal reading programs - Early Reading First, Reading First, and Striving Readers - was introduced Nov.