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Fishers, IN – Last week, Rep. Spartz announced KJ Sawada, Fishers High School Junior, as a winner for the 2022 Congressional App Challenge (CAC) for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District. KJ’s app called the “Class Tracker” tracks each class a student has taken in high school and calculates the credit requirements for graduation for different diplomas.
Service Academy Nominees for the Class of 2027
CARMEL, IN – This week, Rep. Spartz (R-IN) announced the names of twenty-two high school seniors across Indiana's Fifth District who have been nominated to attend the United States Service Academies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Senators Mike Braun (R-Indiana), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona), and in the House by Congresswomen Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Indiana) aimed at fixing an unintended and burdensome provision in the Higher Education Act, was signed into law by President Biden this week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, while co-leading a joint hearing of Civil Rights and Health Subcommittees of Education and Labor Committee on successful models for protecting communities from COVID-19, Rep. Victoria Spartz (IN-5) delivered the following opening statement:
“It’s an important discussion to have: how do we manage and mitigate pandemic risks, look at them comprehensively, and stop politicizing serious government decisions to play politics with people’s lives and advance a party agenda.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consider Teachers Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Mike Braun (R-Indiana), Senator Kyrsten Sinema(D-Arizona), and in the House by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton(D-D.C.) and Congresswoman Victoria Spartz(R-Indiana) aimed at fixing a broken system burdening teachers with unfair loans, passed the U.S. House of Representatives today by a vote of 406 to 16. This legislation was passed in the Senate in April and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) introduced the bipartisan Accounting STEM Pursuit Act. This bill will help to establish the accounting profession as a valuable STEM career pathway and encourage diversity in the future of the accounting workforce.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) are co-leading the Consider Teachers Act of 2021 (H.R. 2048), which seeks to fix errors within the TEACH Grant program that have resulted in thousands of recipients’ grants being inadvertently converted into loans.
MARION, Ind. -- Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (IN-05) spent the day in Grant County, touring a variety of organizations that are making a huge impact in the community.
Rep. Spartz met with management and employees of Atlas Foundry, one of the oldest businesses in Marion. Established in 1893, Atlas Foundry specializes in gray iron castings for a wide range of industries. Rep. Spartz heard about the issues facing manufacturing today and ways she can support the industry and its workers.
WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Victoria Spartz (IN-05) has been selected to serve on two committees—the Judiciary Committee and the Education and Labor Committee.