Skip to main content

Media

Latest News

August 18, 2022

Ongoing work at the Indiana Harbor and Canal in East Chicago is an economic development project with an environmental benefit, U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, said Tuesday.

Mrvan was on hand to tour the work on the Confined Disposal Facility where contaminated sediment from the first dredging of the IHC in 40 years is stored. Work currently underway at the site is designed to increase the CDF storage capacity so continued maintenance dredging can go on for decades.


August 18, 2022

Hammond, IN – Yesterday, U.S. Congressmen Frank J. Mrvan (IN-01) hosted U.S. Congressman Tony Cárdenas (CA-29) at a Hispanic Community Roundtable at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond. The two met with local community stakeholders, including Indiana State Representatives Mike Andrade (HD-12) and Earl Harris Jr. (HD-02). 


August 17, 2022

East Chicago, IN - Yesterday, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, joined Colonel Paul Culberson from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Paul Labovitz, Superintendent of Indiana Dunes National Park, Fernando Trevino, Executive Director of the East Chicago Waterway Management District, and Tim Frame, Harbormaster of the Michigan City Port Authority to tour $49,603,000 in federally funded projects across Northwest Indiana.  


August 12, 2022

Washington, DC  Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan voted in support of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.  


August 11, 2022

The Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority authorized purchases that will upgrade its rescue and maintenance equipment with the help of $2 million in federal money included last spring in a bill that funded the government through September.

The $2 million will go toward a 3,000 gallon Airport Rescue and Firefighting truck and two high-speed runway brooms for snow removal. The costs of just over $932,000 and $1.3 million, respectively, will also be funded through 5% contributions from the Indiana Department of Transportation and the airport itself.


August 10, 2022

Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, announced a grant award for the Town of Munster under the Department of Transportation’s (DOT)  Fiscal Year 2022 Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability & Equity (RAISE) Grants.


August 3, 2022

Washington, DC  Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan released the following statement in response to the passing of Rep. Jackie Walorski, Emma Thomson, and Zachery Potts.


August 3, 2022

Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization, celebrated the Senate passage of the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act.  


July 29, 2022

Washington, DC – Last week, the House approved a package of several Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 appropriations measures that included $18 million for investments in projects requested by Congressman Mrvan.  


July 28, 2022

Washington, DC Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan and the House approved the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act by a vote of 243 to 187.