Chet Edwards For Congress

Working Hard for Grimes County

Chet Edwards believes it is important for Grimes County residents to see some of their hard-earned tax money come back home for important transportation, health care and law enforcement programs.

These investments mean better roads, safer communities and better health care for Grimes County families:

Making Our Communities Safer and Supporting Law Enforcement

• Chet secured $400,000 for the Grimes County Sheriff’s Office to purchase Mobile Data Terminals (MDTs), Mobile Radios and new patrol car gun locks. The new terminal units will greatly enhance the communication between the dispatchers at the sheriff’s office and the street officers in the field. The new gunlocks will be a safer measure for securing shotguns and rifles in the front seat of the patrol car, in turn making the firearms more accessible to officers in emergency situations.

Sept. 16, 2008
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.

March 26, 2008
Police receive $376,000 communications upgrade, thanks to Chet Edwards

By DAVE KUCIFER | Navasota Examiner

U.S. Congressman Chet Edwards met with Navasota city officials on Monday afternoon to announce a $367,000 award to the Navasota Police Department for the upgrade of the department's communication equipment.

Congressman Edwards, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee said the funds would be used for 15 mobile radios to be installed in police vehicles as well as funding other communications technology for the police department.

February 27, 2008
Edwards secures $392,000 for road in Grimes County

Keith News

About 60 residents of Keith, county officials and others from around Grimes County were on hand at the Keith Community Center on Thursday morning, Feb. 21 to hear our representative Chet Edwards officially announce that CR 172 will receive $392,000 to help move fencelines and pave this dirt road. We, the people who have endured the dust and mud of this road, certainly have reason to rejoice. As the saying goes, we can now see light at the end of the tunnel. Praise the Lord!

January 3, 2008
Funds approved for county road improvements

Navasota Examiner:

Grimes County Commissioner, Pct. 4, Pam Finke relayed that the county would be receiving $392,000 for ongoing CR 172 projects during a regularly scheduled Commissioners Court meeting on Monday.

A press release received by Commissioner Finke states U.S. Representative Chet Edwards announced that he has secured $392,000 to repave CR 172 in northern Grimes County under the final 2008 Appropriations bill, which passed the House late Monday, the Senate Tuesday, and is expected to be signed into law by the President. “Improving CR 172 is a safety and economic development issue for Grimes County, and I am thrilled that my request for this important transportation investment was granted,” said Edwards, a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee.