Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig (MN-02) joined her colleagues Reps. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and Mike Thompson (CA-04) in introducing legislation to combat the housing affordability crisis and help Minnesota’s first-time homebuyers purchase a home.
The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Act would establish a refundable tax credit worth up to 10% of a home’s purchase price, up to a maximum of $15,000, for low-and middle-income, first-time homebuyers.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig (D-MN) reintroduced her bipartisan Supporting Apprenticeship Colleges Act with Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) to help increase enrollment in registered apprenticeship programs.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, following the WNBA All-Stars game this past weekend and ahead of the Minnesota Lynx-New York Liberty game, U.S. Representative Angie Craig took to the House floor to condemn the circumstances around the Lynx-Liberty series that cost the Lynx the 2024 WNBA championship title.
EAGAN, MN – As of this month, the Office of U.S. Representative Angie Craig has saved constituents in Minnesota’s Second Congressional District $8,002,266 through its work to assist Minnesotans who have had money wrongfully or mistakenly withheld by federal agencies.
ST. PAUL, MN – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig joined Protect Our Care Minnesota for a virtual press conference to discuss Congressional Republicans’ recent vote to advance the deepest cuts to health care in American history. Rep. Craig was joined by Alicia Schaupp, the mother of a daughter with chronic illness who relies on Medicaid for care, and Kerry Adelmann, a homecare worker, member of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and the mother of a veteran who became disabled in a motorcycle accident after returning from Iraq.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) introduced bipartisan legislation to stop drug trafficking on social media platforms and help law enforcement counter the sale of illicit drugs online.
Rep. Craig’s bipartisan bill requires social media companies and other communication service providers to alert federal law enforcement when illicit drug-dealing and distribution occurs on their platforms.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig introduced bipartisan legislation to expand access to mental health resources for Minnesota’s rural communities and connect farmers and producers with medical professionals and mental health resources.
Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) is co-leading the legislation.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig voted against the Republicans’ catastrophic budget bill that will add trillions to the national debt, take food and health care from hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans and betray the middle class - in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
As ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture, Rep. Craig testified before the House Rules Committee for five hours on Tuesday about the negative impacts of the bill on Minnesotans.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig joined Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rob Wittman (R-VA) and Adam Gray (D-CA) in urging the Administration to follow through on its promise to deliver high-speed internet to rural communities through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
WASHINGTON, DC – As part of her continued efforts to fight corruption and reform Washington, U.S. Representative Angie Craig joined Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (R-NJ) in introducing the No Shorting America Act to restore transparency to Congress and prevent lawmakers from using insider information to short-sell American companies.