Representative Andy Barr News

Chairman Capito, Ranking Member Meeks, and members of the Subcommittee, I am Thomas Richards , Assistant Vice President of Owingsville Banking Co.

Dec. 5, 2013 - The leaders of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit expressed concern about credit union overregulation during a hearing Wednesday about their discussion draft on regulatory relief legislation.

That's a sharp contrast to the people they represent. Despite this nation's great wealth and bounteous food supply, one in six people in America don't have enough to eat.

On the day before Thanksgiving in 2012, 46-year-old coal miner Paul Swanson of Cawood, Ky., lost his job at a mine where he had been required for years to work on his knees.

People are fed up with old-school partisan politics. They want leadership that achieves results.

"We were here researching what we needed in terms of props and in terms of all sorts of artifacts," he said last night at the National Archives Foundation gala.

When they aren't arguing about the new healthcare law or where the other raises money, likely foes in next year's U.S. Senate race, incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Allison Lundergan Grimes, argue over who is the biggest supporter of the coal industry.

U.S. Rep. Andy Barr could only laugh in response when Jane Friedman of Lexington stood up at his town hall in Winchester last week.

The Farmer Veteran Coalition will administer the Homegrown by Heroes program on the national level.

James Comer, Kentucky's agriculture commissioner, said Monday the California-based Farmer Veteran Coalition has volunteered to run the Homegrown by Heroes program across the country.

The Lexington Herald-Leader says Palumbo didn't rule out a possible future political run but said he wants to focus on family and business for now.