Chet Edwards For Congress

B-CS Eagle: TEEX awaits word on funds

By ERIKA JARAMILLO
Bryan-College Station Eagle
Monday, June 29, 2009

Officials at a College Station-based training facility that prepares first responders for terrorist attacks are awaiting word on federal funding that would ensure its nationally recognized programs continue.

If a spending bill pending in the U.S. Senate is approved and signed into law, the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center at Texas A&M will receive a $23 million grant for anti-terrorism training.

B-CS Eagle: Reserve unit may get new home

By MATTHEW WATKINS
Bryan-College Station Eagle

Thursday, June 25, 2009

The home of the 420th Engineer Brigade of the U.S. Army Reserve is falling apart.

Built in 1958, the building on Carson Street in Bryan has foundation problems, cracked floors and damaged walls and ceilings. It also violates modern federal "force protection" requirements because it is too close to the street.

"The current Moore Memorial Center was constructed nearly half a century ago, to support a very different force than we have today," said Col. James Doty, commander of the 420th Engineer Brigade. "It is, quite frankly, beyond its useful life and wholly inadequate to serve as an Army Reserve headquarters."

A piece of legislation may provide the unit with a new headquarters that works, he said.

U.S Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, announced Wednesday that he had included $12.2 million in the 2010 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill to pay for a new headquarters for the unit.

Cleburne Times-Review: House committee appropriates $350K for STOP task force

Cleburne Times-Review

June 15, 2009
Special to the Times-Review

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee agreed to fund $350,000 to the Johnson County Stop the Offender Special Crimes Unit and other county law-enforcement agencies on Tuesday, said U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco.

L-3 POSITIONED FOR FUNDS

Waco Tribune-Herald | May 10, 2009 |
By Mike Copeland

Waco's L-3 Communications plant could get part of the $100 million Congress is likely to approve for repairs to P-3 surveillance planes, says U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco.

Edwards joined other members of the House Appropriations Committee last week in supporting a supplemental appropriations bill allocating $100 million for this work on P-3 planes.

L-3 in Waco gets $136 million boost to continue work on Navy surveillance planes

Waco Tribune-Herald | Friday, December 19, 2008 | By Mike Copeland | Tribune-Herald business editor

L-3 Communications has been awarded a $136 million contract to continue its work on Navy P-3 surveillance planes.

Refurbishing will take place at L-3’s plant at Texas State Technical College airport. The company is Waco’s largest private-sector employer, with about 1,700 on its payroll.