{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases/mrvan-statement-opposition-full-year-continuing-resolution", "Mrvan Statement in Opposition to the Full-Year Continuing Resolution", "2025-03-12", "2025", "2025-03", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Frank J. Mrvan", "M001214", "mrvan.house.gov", "mrvan", "https://mrvan.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Congressman Frank J. Mrvan released the following statement after voting in opposition to the full-year continuing resolution. The measure is currently pending consideration before the U.S. Senate.\n\nA video of Congressman Mrvan\u2019s remarks on the House floor is available here, and below are a copy of his remarks as prepared for delivery and a list of the potentially rescinded Fiscal Year 2025 Community Project Funding requests.\n\n\u201cI voted against the Fiscal Year 2025 full-year continuing resolution because it is a legislative tragedy for Northwest Indiana that will strip away specific funding for public safety and economic development.\n\n\u201cBy not including Community Project Funding requests, approved by this institution and the House Appropriations Committee just last year, Indiana\u2019s First Congressional District loses $4 million in approved funds to support equipment and resources for law enforcement agencies and $7 million in approved economic development projects.\n\n\u201cThis legislation also reduces health benefits for veterans and puts at risk healthcare for seniors and children with complex medical conditions.\n\n\u201cThe House Majority has made Northwest Indiana less safe and jeopardizes our potential for economic growth and ability to create more work and wealth.\n\n\u201cThis legislation also fails to fund the Toxic Exposure Fund established in the Honoring Our PACT Act, which puts veterans\u2019 healthcare and those veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits, Agent Orange, and radiation at risk.\n\n\u201cIt is shameful that we have misled our local law enforcement agencies, local units of government, and our veterans and seniors, and I urge my Senate colleagues to reject this harmful measure.\u201d\n\n$1,000,000 \u2013 Crown Point Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Radio Replacement Project to enhance operations and support swift, coordinated responses.\n\n$306,000 \u2013 Dyer Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Radio Communications Enhancement Project to promote reliable and consistent communications between officers without frequency interruptions.\n\n$150,000 \u2013 East Chicago Police Department \u2013 funding will be utilized to equip patrol officers and detectives with body worn cameras to continue the effective operations of the department.\n\n$400,000 \u2013 Griffith Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Police Radio Upgrade Project to improve interoperability among officers as well as other first responders during emergencies.\n\n$488,000 \u2013 Hobart Police Department \u2013 funding will be utilized to equip patrol officers and detectives with body worn cameras.\n\n$400,000 \u2013 La Porte Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Equipment and Technology Upgrades Project to enhance officers\u2019 abilities to protect and serve the public and improve efficiencies.\n\n$670,000 \u2013 Schererville Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Portable Radio Replacement Project to improve interoperability among officers as well as other first responders during emergencies.\n\n$398,000 \u2013 Valparaiso Police Department \u2013 funding will assist with the Portable Radio Upgrades Project to promote swift, coordinated responses.\n\n$1,105,800 \u2013 Town of Cedar Lake \u2013 funding will be utilized to support the construction of a sanitary sewer interceptor to improve the health and safety of residents by increasing capacity for the efficient management of sanitary flow and improving water quality.\n\n$850,000 \u2013 Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority \u2013 funding will be utilized to support the expansion and construction of a heavy cargo logistics apron for multiple users to enhance increased airport operations.\n\n$850,000 \u2013 City of Gary \u2013 funding will assist Gary Redevelopment Commission with the demolition of the former Ivanhoe Elementary School.\n\n$250,000 \u2013 Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) \u2013 funding will assist with Phase I of the Multimodal Gary Metro Center Station on the South Shore Line to design a fully ADA accessible high-level platform.\n\n$500,000 \u2013 City of Michigan City \u2013 funding will assist with the Westside Opportunity Hub Project to transform a blighted structure into a community resource hub.\n\n$2,500,000 \u2013 Calumet Region Environmental Infrastructure \u2013 funding provides for partnerships between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the communities in Lake and Porter Counties, to address critical water, sanitary sewer, and stormwater sewer infrastructure improvement.\n\n$1,184,000 \u2013 Purdue University Northwest \u2013 funding will be utilized to assist with the purchase of equipment for the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) and enhance their initiatives to support cutting-edge technologies for the domestic steel and manufacturing industries.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:15:27Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", 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