Press Releases
Oct 31, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today welcomed an announcement that the Department of Defense has awarded more than $36.5 million to a private company training soldiers in the operation of unmanned aircraft at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista.
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Oct 26, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber and members of his staff will be at the St. Philip’s Farmers’ Market on Sunday to meet with constituents and offer assistance with the federal government.
Oct 24, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber will introduce retired astronaut Mark Kelly tomorrow as Kelly reads his best-selling book Mousetronaut to Tucson school children.
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Oct 17, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber will speak at an event tomorrow in which four first responders who acted heroically will be honored – one of several upcoming events the congressman will attend over the next few days.
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Oct 17, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today asked Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to order a new Environmental Impact Statement of the proposed Rosemont mine southeast of Tucson because of major changes to the mine’s plan of operation.
Oct 12, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber will host a solar event with religious organizations that have installed solar panels and also visit Tucson’s most popular annual festival where members of his staff will be available to help constituents.
Oct 11, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber is hosting an 8-year-old boy who is in Tucson this week visiting the grave of his father, a Tucson native who was killed in Afghanistan three years ago.
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Oct 9, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber tomorrow will speak at the opening of a community health center in Vail and tour a new solar facility that is one of the largest solar power plants in Southern Arizona.
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Oct 5, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today issued the following statement after investigators offered new information that U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie may have been killed this week by accidental friendly fire in Southern Arizona, five miles north of the U.S. Mexico border.
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Oct 4, 2012
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TUCSON – U. S. Rep. Ron Barber is accepting applications from high school students in southern Arizona who are interested in receiving a congressional nomination to attend one of America’s prestigious service academies.
Oct 2, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber is hosting Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, for briefings and tours on Southern Arizona’s military installations.
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Oct 2, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement about today’s shooting death of a Border Patrol agent near Bisbee in Barber’s Southern Arizona district. A second agent was wounded and is hospitalized, recovering from his injuries.
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Oct 1, 2012
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TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Ron Barber today will present two military medals to a 73-year-old U.S. Navy veteran who served in the South China Sea during the Cold War more than five decades ago.
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