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Savage Pacer: Lowering health care costs, bipartisan approach are top priorities, Craig says

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.

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KSTP: Rep. Angie Craig’s ‘payment integrity’ bill makes its way to President Trump

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.

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USAgNet: Craig: Funding for Hmong American Farmers Association

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).

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KMSP: Minnesota lawmakers call for more financial aid for 2019 spring flooding following damage underestimation

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.

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BELLE PLAIN HERALD: BIPARTISAN BILL SPONSORED BY REP. CRAIG LANDS ON PRES. TRUMP’S DESK

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.

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MINNESOTA SUN: ANGIE CRAIG CALLS FOR BAN ON ALL VAPING FLAVORS

Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN-02) recently sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging her to “immediately consider” the Reversing Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act, a bill that would ban all vaping flavors.

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Minnpost: Rep. Angie Craig might actually get a bill signed by President Trump. Why that’s such a notable accomplishment

Rep. Angie Craig will soon have a bill on President Donald Trump’s desk — the first bill in the current Congress sponsored by a member of the Minnesota delegation to make it anywhere near being signed into law. On Wednesday, the Second District representative’s bill cleared the House, after already passing in the Senate — an unusual feat considering the current gridlock. Craig says the bill’s intention is simple, but necessary: The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 aims to curb billions of dollars of improper payments made by federal agencies to government contractors.

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STAR TRIBUNE: MINNESOTA REP. ANGIE CRAIG’S BILL ON PAYMENT REFORMS LANDS ON TRUMP’S DESK

U.S. Rep. Angie Craig Craig’s bill, approved by the House in a voice vote Wednesday, is the first by any of Minnesota’s four freshman representatives to get to the president’s desk.

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Minnesota Ag Connection: Craig Unveils House $760 Billion Infrastructure Framework

Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota unveiled House Democrats' new framework for a five-year, $760 billion investment that would create an estimated 10 million jobs addressing some of the country's most urgent infrastructure needs, from the massive maintenance backlog, to designing safer streets, to putting the U.S. on a path toward zero carbon pollution from the transportation sector and increasing resiliency. This framework would bolster the Federal role in order to help communities around the country undertake transformative projects that are smarter, safer and made to last.

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Belle Plain Herald: Angie Craig Holds Healthcare Roundtable in Belle Plaine

Rep. Angie Craig, who represents Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, held a roundtable discussion in the Belle Plaine School District office on Friday, Jan. 31.

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