The Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act, introduced by Reps. Mike Bost (R-Illinois) and Angie Craig (D-Minnesota), will make $755 million available to states to finance projects aimed at increasing the number of parking spaces for commercial truck drivers.
Minnesota’s Democratic U.S. Congress members are asking President Donald Trump’s administration to speed up medical supply deliveries to Minnesota from the national stockpile to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Congress is generally not inclined to impose new rules on itself, but it’s time for both chambers to take up the HUMBLE Act, introduced by Minnesota congresswoman Angie Craig last summer, which would ban individual stock ownership for members.
Local nonprofit agencies on Thursday said already razor-thin profit margins and a shark spike in demand have them worried that a prolonged coronavirus pandemic could be perilous for their future. The comments came during an hour-long conference call with 2nd District Congresswoman Angie Craig, DFL-Minnesota, to discuss the impacts they are experiencing in providing services as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the U.S.
Craig said although it’s a challenge to practice social distancing, it is of the utmost importance. “The bottom line is this: We have to make sure that we are completely focused on flattening the curve. We cannot allow the virus to spread to the point that our health care system is overwhelmed,” she told the Reformer.
A bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives calls on the federal government to spend $755 million to build new truck parking along the federal highway system. The bipartisan legislation was introduced Thursday, March 5 by Rep. Mike Bost (R-Illinois) and Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minnesota).
“We certainly could use some more help,” Gina Adasiewicz, deputy public health director for Dakota County, said Friday after a group of local health officials met to discuss virus preparations with U.S. Rep. Angie Craig.
U.S. Representative Angie Craig just returned to Minnesota from Washington, D.C. saying that in D.C. lawmakers were working on passing a supplemental bill that would make sure COVID-19 testing is free and to provide 78-million Americans paid sick leave in the event they are affected by COVID-19.
Second Congressional District Rep. Angie Craig, DFL-Minnesota, local superintendents and public health officials advised residents to take precaution and described how they will meet student needs as schools close during the coronavirus outbreak.
Earlier in the day Friday, Craig brought state and county health leaders together for a candid conversation. She wanted to answer many of the questions already flooding into county health departments in her district.