February 7, 2003, SHELBYVILLE/SPRINGIELD – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon will be in Bedford and Robertson counties on Friday, February 14, and Saturday, February 15, to discuss the need to improve education, jumpstart the economy, and strengthen Medicare and Social Security while paying down the nation’s debt.
February 21, 2003, HARTSVILLE – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon secured $400,000 in federal funding to help plan and design a new critical access hospital for Trousdale County.
February 14, 2003, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Bart Gordon and Jim Cooper secured $4 million from congressional appropriators to help build the Nashville-to-Lebanon leg of a Middle Tennessee commuter-rail system.
February 12, 2003, HENDERSONVILLE – The Army Corps of Engineers should complete dredging a one-mile channel designed to restore the Drakes Creek ecosystem and enhance Memorial Park by September, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
February 25, 2003, MURFREESBORO – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon has secured $100,000 in federal funding for the Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia at Middle Tennessee State University.
February 12, 2003, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon voted for a measure today (Wednesday, February 12) authorizing the establishment of a national "Do Not Call" registry that prohibits telemarketers from calling consumers who place their names on the list.
February 14, 2003, MURFREESBORO – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon has garnered $250,000 from Congress to plan an expanded tour route and recreate the historic band rostrum at Stones River National Battlefield.
February 20, 2003, WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon expressed approval that ambulatory surgery will be kept at the York VA Medical Center, but questioned moving all inpatient surgeries to an overcrowded Nashville VA Medical Center.
February 6, 2003, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon today urged President Bush to broaden the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and make it independent from NASA.
February 13, 2003, LEWISBURG – Heavy rains and armyworms damaged crops in Marshall County last year, prompting the federal government to declare the county a disaster area, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
February 17, 2003, MURFREESBORO – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon secured $720,000 in federal funding for MTSU to test and demonstrate a cutting-edge flight safety program designed to automate air traffic control.
February 7, 2003, WASHINGTON, D.C. – A plan forcing the Tennessee Valley Authority to cut its debt in half during the next four years could mean as much as a 43 percent increase in electric rates paid by Tennessee residents and businesses.
February 7, 2003, WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, in a letter to the president, called changes made by NASA to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board inadequate to ensure an independent review.
February 21, 2003, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congress has approved a $210,000 appropriation for the Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area, designed to promote tourism and economic development in the state, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon said.
February 16, 2003, MURFREESBORO – U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon has secured $3 million to finish a wetlands preservation project that is creating educational parks next to the Oaklands Mansion and the new Children’s Discovery House museum.
