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Here is how area members of Congress -- Reps. Joe Donnelly and Peter Visclosky and Sens.

More than $6.8 million in federal projects will be coming to Northwest Indiana for infrastructure, law enforcement and education, U.S. Rep.

It was billed as a citizens hearing on health-care system reform, but the citizens didn't get to talk until the event was nearly over.

Steamed about your health care coverage, or lack of it? A coalition of labor, civil rights and faith organizations want to hear your stories at a public hearing on health care reform at 6 p.m. today at United Steelworkers' McBride Hall in Gary.

Plans for a protest march turned into a celebration when Lake Station officials and residents learned Monday their post office would remain open after all.

No one has answers for "Easterly's pile." At the Wednesday public meeting that ArcelorMittal was bound by law to hold, the company had no answers for questions about its pile of waste in Burns Harbor and whether it would be going into its proposed landfill.

Here is how area members of Congress -- Reps. Joe Donnelly and Peter Visclosky and Sens.

Whether studying fish retinas or polluted lake water, Indiana University School of Medicine -- Northwest researchers have used the new biomedical research equipment acquired in the last year.

WASHINGTON D.C.a 'Nancy Da TMAlesandro Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has regularly accused the Republicans in the House of displaying "a culture of corruption." Yet the critical vote to get the House version of the health bill out of the House, demonstrates that Speaker Pelosi not only likes corruption, she counts on it.

Lawmakers on the House defense-spending panel are receiving fewer campaign contributions from companies that benefited from special provisions added to legislation, according to an analysis of fund-raising data and congressional records.

A Trojan horse stabled at Fort Hood, Texas, and it wasn't a major clue for our CIA.

U.S. Rep. Peter Visclosky of Merrillville, who supported the health care bill in the House, called it "a bill that will significantly improve our health care system." "I am proud to support the Affordable Health Care for America Act," he said Saturday night.

A discussion of how Northwest Indiana's newest planned university campus fits into Northwest Indiana's economic landscape is slated for Thursday.

Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has regularly accused the Republicans in the House of displaying 'a culture of corruption.' Yet the critical vote to get the House version of the health bill out of the House, demonstrates that Speaker Pelosi not only likes corruption, she counts on it.

Work is complete on a two-phase Indiana National Guard project at the Gary/Chicago International Airport that enhances the security of Northwest Indiana and provides a valuable resource for its citizens.

The news that is not White House approved... Stimulus Says... Despite being slammed by the Associated Press Thursday for overstating the number of jobs created by the stimulus, the White House was at it again on Friday.

It may not have been the biggest news of last week, but it likely will have a longer-lasting impact on Northwest Indiana than any other story.

The disclosure that seven House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee members are being scrutinized for their ties to PMA Group, a now-defunct lobbying firm that raised money for lawmakers and won earmarks for clients, is not expected to have a chilling effect on negotiations to reach agreement on a final fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill.

Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, is among seven members of the House defense appropriations subcommittee under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, the Washington Post reports.

Seven members of a powerful subcommittee that was the subject of a recent Center investigation are now being scrutinized by the House ethics committee, according to The Washington Post .