WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that two bills she leads to bolster benefits for first responders and increase investigation resources for carjackings and other crimes unanimously passed out of the committee. The bipartisan Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act would expand access to federal support for the families of first responders who passed away from  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Michelle Fischbach, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release: Representatives Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) and Brad Finstad (MN-01) introduced the Federal Agriculture Risk Management Enhancement and Resilience (FARMER) Act, legislation that will strengthen crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable for producers. Specifically, the FARMER Act would: * Increase premium support for higher levels of crop insurance coverage, which will enhance   more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: Text of Letter (PDF) Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) led a letter to the heads of the financial regulatory agencies, urging them to clamp down on discrimination in banking by combating "de-risking," -- a practice that may disproportionately affect Muslim Americans and immigrant communities. "De-risking" is when financial institutions, in an attempt to   more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minnesota, issued the following statement on May 16, 2024: * * * Today, Representatives Costa, Cohen, Goldman, Manning, Norcross, Phillips, Schrier, Stevens, Stanton, Sherman, Wasserman-Schultz, and Wild voted against H.R. 8369, the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, and issued the following joint statement in response to repeated attempts by House Republicans to use Israel and the American Jewish community as political pawns: "For over fifty   more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release on May 16, 2024: Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) voted for the Israel Security Assistance Support Act to require the Biden Administration to expeditiously deliver the Congressionally approved defense support to Israel and condemn the President's dangerous actions to withhold arms as Israel faces unprecedented threats from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran. Stauber is a cosponsor of this critica  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Rep. Michelle Fischbach, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release on May 14, 2024: Representatives Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) and Greg Pence (IN-06) introduced a Congressional Review Act to overturn the Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS) mandatory nursing staff ratio rule. "The HHS nursing staff mandate is a half-baked, one-size-fits-none plan that will not solve the nursing staff shortage and will hurt nursing home facilities all across Minnesota's Seve  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chairwoman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, reintroduced legislation to reinvigorate America's antitrust laws and restore competition to American markets. The Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act will give federal enforcers the resources they need to do their jobs, strengthen prohibitions on anticompetitiv  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- Sen. Tina Flint Smith, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced bipartisan legislation to expand a lifeline for rural hospitals facing closure. The Rural Emergency Hospital Improvement Act would remove barriers for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and rural hospitals to convert to a Rural Emergency Hospital designation under Medicare. These changes would help rural hospitals facing closure to receive f  more