May 1, 2000, MURFREESBORO – McFadden’s Trace, a National Parks Service trail along the dirt road used by troops during the Civil War, will open this Friday, May 5, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon announced.
May 5, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – A $160,566 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant will enable the Livingston Byrdstown Jamestown & Cookeville Development Corporation to improve its Head Start programs, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
May 9, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon is cosponsoring a bill that expands a recent U.S. Department of Energy plan to compensate workers made ill while building nuclear weapons at DOE plants in Oak Ridge and other sites across the country.
May 9, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Bart Gordon and Bob Clement have secured $6 million from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation to build a commuter-rail line from Nashville to Lebanon.
May 10, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon voted Tuesday to approve the Child Health Research and Prevention Amendments, a host of measures funding children’s health and birth-defect prevention programs.
May 11, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – A $534,161 U.S. Department of Justice grant will enable the Tennessee Task Force Against Domestic Violence to improve domestic violence services in 19 rural counties, including Cannon, Clay, Jackson, Smith and Trousdale counties, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
May 16, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recognizing the need to better educate children about their personal safety, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon voted for a bill that urges primary and secondary schools to implement comprehensive child safety education programs.
May 16, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – A $60,839 Community Oriented Policing Services grant will enable Gainesboro to hire one full-time and one part-time police officer who will make the town a safer place to live, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
May 19, 2000, LAFAYETTE – A $39,000 federal Byrne grant will enable the Macon County Sheriff’s Department to improve its fingerprinting system to within a potential zero percent margin-of-error rate, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
May 19, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Bart Gordon and Bob Clement secured approval today from the U.S. House of Representatives for a $6 million appropriation to build a commuter-rail line from Nashville to Lebanon.
May 23, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – A $390,012 U.S. Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program grant will allow the Sumner County Board of Education to offer extended-day programs to students and families of three local middle schools, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
May 24, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon urges all parents to take high-quality photographs of their children as the nation observes National Missing Children’s Day on Thursday, May 25.
May 24, 2000, MURFREESBORO – An Environmental Protection Agency public involvement team will interview residents next week in Williamson and Rutherford counties as the agency begins the process of removing lead from several contaminated sites, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon announced today.
May 25, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – One less charge will be seen on monthly telephone bills if legislation approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives is OK’d by the Senate, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
May 26, 2000, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congress has passed a $15 billion farm-assistance package that includes $35 million in direct aid to Tennessee tobacco farmers, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
