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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Louisville Fire Department is getting some help out on the water. The team unveiled its new fire and rescue boat on the Ohio River Tuesday.

As the campaign shifts into high gear with the opening of our new campaign headquarters at  600 E. Main Street there are lots of ways for you to VOLUNTEER, CONTRIBUTE, and STAY INVOLVED.

Our new location at 600 E. Main Street is open:
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• Stop in and buy a Yarmuth T-shirt for $20 and wear it to community events around town.
• Keep Louisville Yarmuth: Volunteer to phone bank, walk door-to-door, assemble and deliver yard signs, or anything else.
• We have a wish list of furniture and office supplies.  Sign-up to contribute by calling the office at 502-891-8914.
• Provide your financial support to our effort to keep moving Louisville forward with Congressman Yarmuth for another two years.
• Get campaign updates and share links with your friends on Facebook.

Your support has helped send Congressman Yarmuth to Washington to increase the minimum wage, make college more affordable, and honor our veterans and military families by making sure they get the support they need.  Thank you for continuing to help in the fight for Louisville families.

The St. Bartholomew school will soon be a place seniors can call home.

The Buechel church, Catholic Charities, the Housing Partnership and U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D.-3rd District, on Tuesday announced more than $3 million in funding to convert the school building into low-cost housing for senior citizens.

St. Bartholomew will join six other buildings in the diocese that have been restored and turned into housing, including St. Cecilia in Portland, which was renovated in 2008 and St. Denis in Shively earlier this year.

Last week, House Minority Leader John Boehner said he was "still trying to find the first American to talk to who's in favor of the public option, other than a Member of Congress or the Administration."

Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) responded by inviting Minority Leader Boehner to meet one of the tens of thousands of Louisvillians who support a public health insurance option in order to ensure all Americans always have access to high-quality, affordable health care.

Click here to invite Minority Leader Boehner to meet YOU, and we'll deliver your invitation and message of support for the public health insurance option to the Minority Leader.

Yarmuth takes health care role

Rep. John Yarmuth, D-3rd District, is an adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on communicating the Democrats' message on health care (excluding for now, perhaps, the Blue Dogs).

Last week Yarmuth spoke to national reporters about health care costs and small businesses.

Rep. John Yarmuth, D-3rd District, does not yet have a Republican opponent for 2010.

But the lawmaker is raising money for the next contest anyway.

Yarmuth's campaign says he took in $284,039 for the second quarter and now has $361,252 in cash on hand.

Settled firmly into his second term in Congress, John Yarmuth talks health care, energy, and how Obama might actually save the planet

$600,000 will expand facilities used for military and Homeland Security missions

(Washington, DC) Today, Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) was joined by law enforcement leaders from around Louisville and the Commonwealth to announce the new funding and resources available to Louisville law enforcement agencies following the approval of his request to include Jefferson County in the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program.

(Washington, DC) Today, Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) announced that YouthBuild Louisville will receive more than $699,000 in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help provide vocational instruction to unemployed and undereducated Louisville youth.