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WASHINGTON — Indiana Rep. Luke Messer was elected Thursday to the No. 5 House GOP leadership slot, a position he said he will use to show Republicans can help working families.
“We need a positive agenda, so we’re not defined by just what we oppose,” Messer said after his colleagues elected him chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee for the next Congress.
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SHELBYVILLE, Ind.--While federal government officials and officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to address the Ebola issue, a lawmaker who represents Shelby County said more should be done.
U.S. Rep. Luke Messer, who represents Shelby County in the 6th Congressional District, urged Ebola Czar Ron Klain to help lead the effort to combat Ebola
Editor's note: Rep. Luke Messer, R-Indiana, is the head of the freshman class of House Republicans and is a member of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. Other members of the subcommittee who have also signed on to this include: Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman; Rep. Thomas E. Petri, R-Wisconsin; Rep.
Now that the House leadership elections are over, it's time for another go-round.
At least, that's how Rep. Luke Messer of Indiana sees it. On Thursday, he confirmed he's already running to become the next chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee—the fifth-ranking position in party's leadership ladder.
Messer, who is currently the House GOP freshman class president
Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) has introduced a measure that would posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Maya Angelou.
Angelou passed away on May 28 at the age of 86. The bill would present Angelou with Congress's highest civilian honor
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Members of the Indiana delegation to Congress are speaking out about the deteriorating situation in Iraq where Sunni extremists are battling government forces.
Senator Joe Donnelly calls the circumstances in Iraq “extremely serious.” Donnelly, a Democrat, is calling on the Iraqi government to step up and protect its people.
He says that unless there are
GREENFIELD — As Josiah Schaekel made his way across the stage, his family members couldn’t hold back their excitement.
They whooped and hollered for the 18-year-old graduate of the Hoosier Youth ChalleNGe Academy, who not only received his general equivalency diploma Saturday during the ceremony at Greenfield-Central High School but a $500 scholarship for his hard work.
It’s a
On April 10 we will mark the 35th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), an important piece of legislation that has served as the cornerstone of the strong relationship between the U.S. and Taiwan.
A year into my tenure on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, having just returned from a congressional delegation to Taiwan and four
The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in one of the most important religious liberty cases of our time — Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. v. Sebelius and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius. These combined cases pose a critical question to the Supreme Court: Can the federal government require business owners to provide life-ending drugs to their employees when doing so
Rep. Luke Messer (R-Ind.) had scarcely finished one campaign when he immediately moved on to another.
The morning after defeating Democrat Brad Bookout to win a first term representing Indiana’s 6th District, Messer began calling his fellow Republican victors to seek their vote to become president of their freshman class. Bolstered by the support of his two fellow Indiana
