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WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Katharine MacGregor to be the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior with a 58-38 vote. MacGregor has been serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff exercising the authority of the Deputy Secretary since May of 2019.
Washington, D.C. – Congressmen Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA) announced today the formation of the Congressional Broadcasters Caucus.
Otsego, MN – Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) announced today that his office will once again be accepting submissions for the annual Congressional Art Competition.
Otsego, MN - Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) issued the following statement regarding the ongoing fire at the Northern Metal Recycling plant in Becker, MN, located in Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Collin Peterson, a member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, today led the Minnesota House Delegation in a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to highlight the importance of the Readjustment Counseling Service (RCS) to the Veterans, active duty Servicemembers, Guard and Reserve personnel and their families in Minnesota, and to ask for support in increasing the level of services available in greater Minnesota.
Historic snowfall, ice, and melting snow caused widespread flooding and significant infrastructure damage across the state in the spring of 2019, affecting at least 51 counties and four tribal nations
After a preliminary damage assessment of $40 million, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) later finalized the damage assessment at $76 million, almost twice the original assessment and requiring additional state resources
Every vote counts, and everyone’s participation is necessary.
Unfortunately, the first bill of this Congress, H.R. 1, is Speaker Pelosi’s partisan attempt to put this vital process in jeopardy. Instead of focusing on countering legitimate threats to our free and fair elections like fraudulent voting and ballot harvesting, this bill stands to dramatically interfere with a state’s ability to conduct their own elections and guarantee current politicians have taxpayer money to fund their own campaigns.
Since 2019, the House of Representatives ignored policies that would improve the lives of Americans to instead focus on impeachment of the President. The hearings House Democrats conducted were political theater, even though it was theater that few Americans would pay for. Every moment spent on impeachment was a moment lost to address the real issues facing our nation.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) applauded the announcement of funding for the Duluth Seaway Port Authority’s 2020 Revitalization and Expansion project. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $10.5 million in funding through the Port Infrastructure Development program. The program is designed to improve U.S. maritime ports as critical links between the U.S. and international supply chains.