WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: In light of the ongoing postal challenges across North Dakota, Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) and Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) 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  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - In light of the ongoing postal challenges across North Dakota, U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Hoeven (R-ND) and U.S. Representative Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) called for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General to expand an ongoing postal audit of the North Dakota-Minnesota district to include communities statewide and to inspect proposed changes to mail processing for the Bism  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minnesota, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, released the following statement today after House Republicans introduced a standalone Israel supplemental bill: "This weekend, House Republicans introduced legislation that fails to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza or provide urgently needed U.S. support for Ukraine  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minnesota, issued the following statement on Feb. 6, 2024: * * * Today Rep. Dean Phillips (MN-03) released the following statement on Speaker Johnson's Israel funding bill: "With a bipartisan deal in hand that would strengthen U.S. national security and support our Ukrainian, Israeli, and Taiwanese allies in their defense against dictators and terrorists, I'm appalled that Speaker Johnson has chosen -for the second time since October 7th - to politi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2024: Today, Rep. Dean Phillips (D, MN) will vote against Republicans' long-shot bid to remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The quixotic campaign has baffled many, since it is Congress - not Cabinet secretaries - that is at fault for the shameful state of our immigration system. "This Republican Majority will go down in history as a complete nonentity," said Phillips. "The Ar  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release: Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) recently led a letter to House Leadership and House Appropriations Chairwoman and Ranking Member requesting that any FY2024 spending package put before the House of Representatives include language to delist the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The importance of this request was recently compounded by a Friday announcement made by the Biden Administration's  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Tina Flint Smith, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) joined her colleagues Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to reintroduce legislation to establish an interagency committee tasked with improving coordination of federal oversight of for-profit colleges, so that students are not scammed out of an education and into a mountain of debt. The bill, called the Proprieta  more