By: Andrew Deziel2/27/2020 A bipartisan group of legislators have introduced a bill that would make Minnesota the first state in the nation to embrace E15, or gasoline with 15% ethanol, as the standard. The bill was introduced Monday in the House by Rep. Jeanne Poppe, DFL-Austin, and in the Senate by Sen. Torrey Westrom, R-Elbow Lake. Poppe and Westrom serve […]
Reps. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Jackie Speier, D-Calif., honored two children's books by reading them aloud on the House floor Thursday morning.
Hoping to learn how the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal is impacting businesses in her district, U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, MN-2, hosted a roundtable discussion Monday in Pine Island. "I called us together so I can learn a little bit more from your perspective what you see as the most important parts of USMCA," Craig said, opening the discussion with representatives from various agricultural, manufacturing and transportation businesses.
With the recent roll out of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig is looking to see how the trade deal is impacting her district. She meet with members from the wine, trucking and farming industries on Monday and the overall reaction from those in attendance is that the USMCA is helping.
U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and U.S. Representative Angie Craig (D-MN 2) lauded the USDA for filling the new role of rural health liaison to help improve rural health care--something the bipartisan group of senators pushed to include in the Farm Bill and Craig advocated for.
Health care remains the most important issue in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, but there's been progress over the last decade, U.S. Rep. Angie Craig said at a town hall in Savage Wednesday.
Congresswoman Angie Craig is the first freshman member of the Minnesota Congressional delegation to get a bill to the president. Craig co-authored the bipartisan bill that creates new protections to keep the federal government from making overpayments to other governments and programs.
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig announced that the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) will receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
The Minnesota congressional delegation is calling upon FEMA to provide more financial aid to the state to assist communities that were impacted by last year's spring flooding. This comes after the FEMA's finalized damage assessment was determined to be nearly double its original assessment.
President Donald Trump has a new piece of bipartisan legislation on his desk after Rep. Angie Craig, who represents Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, alongside two Republican lawmakers and a Democrat, put forth a bill last week aimed at significantly reducing government spending.