{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mrvan-announces-eda-grant-nirpc", "Mrvan Announces EDA Grant for NIRPC", "2025-09-25", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Frank J. Mrvan", "M001214", "mrvan.house.gov", "mrvan", "https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan announced a federal grant award for the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC) through the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA).\n\nSpecifically, NIRPC will receive $70,000 to support the implementation of their Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for Lake, Porter, and LaPorte Counties. According to the EDA, this funding aims to promote this effort to bring together the public and private sectors to strengthen the regional economy and create more job opportunities.\n\nCongressman Mrvan stated, \u201cThank you to all the leadership of NIRPC for successfully utilizing this federal resource and continuing your initiatives to create the foundation for more economic growth in Northwest Indiana. I look forward to continuing to build on this momentum to create more good-paying job opportunities for everyone in our region.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy represents the work of multiple regional stakeholders,\u201d said Ty Warner, Executive Director of NIRPC. \u201cThis award allows us to advance the strategic goals in the CEDS, including building up the workforce and industry clusters that will keep Northwest Indiana economically competitive well into the future.\u201d\n\nFor additional information on the EDA\u2019s grant program, clickhere.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mrvan-announces-eda-grant-nirpc"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6868450436741114, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}