WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (Rep.) -- House Republican Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minnesota, issued the following statement on Feb. 5, 2024: * * * Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise, Whip Emmer, and Chairwoman Stefanik today released the following statement regarding the Senate's immigration bill. "House Republicans oppose the Senate immigration bill because it fails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration. "Among its many flaws, the bill expands w  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) delivered remarks at the Minnesota Newspaper Association's (MNA) 157th Annual Convention. MNA is a state-wide trade association that represents local newspapers from across the state. The two-day convention took place on Thursday, February 1, and Friday, February 2, and featured newspaper publishers and editors from across the state. Approximately 250 news industry profess  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released the following statement on the U.S. Senate's bipartisan border security and foreign aid package. The package includes language based on Klobuchar's bipartisan Afghan Adjustment Act to allow Afghans who sought refuge in the United States to apply for permanent legal residency after undergoing additional vetting. The package also includes major funding to combat fen  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, along with Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), introduced the Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act to prevent companies from using algorithms to collude to set higher prices. "Price fixi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: In light of the ongoing postal challenges across North Dakota, Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer and Congressman Kelly Armstrong this week called for the U.S. Postal Service Inspector General to expand an ongoing postal audit of the Minnesota-North Dakota district to include communities statewide, as well as to audit proposed changes to mail processing for the Bismarck and Grand Forks regions. "We wr  more