Number & Notables

• 639 Hoosiers toured the U.S. Capitol Building with members of Senator Lugar’s staff in October 2007.

• Announced $8.4 million in grants to 15 Indiana communities and organizations to promote home ownership and affordable housing from the U.S. Department Housing and Urban Development.

• Received the March of Dimes’ Public Affairs Leadership Award for advancing maternal and child health issues.

• Announced $231,560 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to assist in the completion of West Side Hope’s new Family Life Center.

• Delivered a speech at the Brookings Institution on Monday, October 8, on U.S.-Russian relations and the opportunity for greater partnership.

• Announced a $349,865 grant to Purdue University from the U.S. Department of Commerce to provide the framework and tools necessary to help economic development practitioners enhance economic opportunities in rural communities.

• Introduced legislation with Sens. Dodd and Casey to expand existing debt cancellation programs for the world’s poorest countries.

• Hosted the Indiana Veterans Community Day on Saturday, October 27, at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis with AARP Indiana and IndianaVeterans.info.

• Announced grants from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for Head Start programs in Tell City, Michigan City, Aurora, and Evansville.

• Called for swift reauthorization of PEPFAR in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on HIV/AIDS.

• Announced annual “Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders” for high school juniors to discuss current events and issues.

• Called for EU sanctions on Burma.

Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program September Update:

• Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) mobile launchers were destroyed;
• 4 train shipments of nuclear weapons were sent to safe and secure storage.