And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.

She defeated McSweeney 51% to 44%. They lived in an adjoining district for her entire time in Congress. Melissa Luburich Bean (Serbian Cyrillic: Мелиса Бин Лубурић) (born January 22 1962) is an American politician who was the U.

S. Bean who is of Serb origin is a member of the Democratic Party. Representative for Illinois's 8th congressional district from 2005 to 2011.