Chet Edwards For Congress

Defense contracts net $7.2 million for Central Texas projects, studies

Waco Tribune-Herald | October 12, 2008 | By Mike Copeland | Tribune-Herald business editor

L-3 Communications will get $4.8 million to create a lab for testing new ways Navy EP-3E planes can spy on the enemy.

KWTX TV: Local Post Office Renamed For Local Soldier Killed In Vietnam

KWTX TV | October 5, 2008

(October 25, 2008)—A dedication ceremony Saturday morning marked the official renaming of the Clay Avenue Post Office in Waco to honor Pfc. Juan Alonso Covarrrubias, who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1969.

Texas to get most of disaster aid in spending bill

AP via the Houston Chronicle | Sept. 24, 2008

Lawmakers to ask Congress for billions to recover

WASHINGTON — Democratic Congressman Chet Edwards says the House will pass a year-end spending bill that will designate most of about $23 billion in disaster recovery aid for Hurricane Ike.

Edwards says the House was to pass the spending bill Wednesday. The money is divided among agencies and programs.