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WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig questioned health care experts on the effectiveness of reinsurance programs at bringing down the cost of health care premiums for enrollees. Earlier this year, Craig reintroduced the State Health Care Premium Reduction Act, which would help states create their own reinsurance programs. In response to Craig's questions, Katie Keith, an Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University, confirmed that reinsurance programs had been widely successful in lowering the cost of premiums for customers.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Brian Mast (R-FL) reintroduced the Local Water Protection Act, a bipartisan bill to reduce water pollution in local communities.
The Local Water Protection Act would reauthorize an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant program that provides funds for states to develop and implement programs for managing nonpoint source water pollution, or pollution from diffuse sources including runoff from farms, managed forests and urban areas.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig announced that she has joined the Bipartisan Working Group, an organization of Republican and Democratic Members of Congress who are dedicated to working together to advance bipartisan legislation and foster dialogue between both sides of the aisle.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig announced the start of the 2021 Congressional Art Competition for students in Minnesota's Second District. The annual competition, hosted each spring, is open to all high school students who live in the Second District. The winning submission will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol Building for one year alongside artwork from Congressional District across the Nation.
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, U.S. Representative Angie Craig joined her colleagues on the House Rural Broadband Task Force to introduce H.R. 1783, the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act. This legislation makes a bold investment of $94 billion to ensure that rural and underserved communities have affordable high-speed internet access.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced legislation to lower the cost of premiums for people in the individual marketplace by an estimated 8%. The State Health Care Premium Reduction Act would provide federal funding for states to establish reinsurance programs to lower health care premiums – or to provide financial assistance to reduce out-of-pocket costs including premiums for individuals enrolled in qualified health plans.
The bill passed the House last Congress with bipartisan support.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig (D-MN) introduced legislation to fund the planning, design, construction, modernization and renovation of hospitals and outpatient health care facilities run or contracted with the Indian Health Service. The Indian Health Care Improvement Act would provide an additional $5 billion over the next three years to the Indian Health Service – with the goal of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and improving health outcomes for the country's native populations.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig voted to pass the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a wide-ranging economic relief package designed to provide financial support to struggling Americans, deliver assistance to small businesses as well as local governments and contain the COVID-19 virus by distributing billions of dollars to support vaccine distribution and testing.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig released the following statement on the House passage of H.R. 842, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021, which would offer the most significant upgrade to U.S. labor laws in 80 years.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig introduced legislation to provide consumers with transparent information on broadband services available in the marketplace. The Broadband Consumer Transparency Act of 2021 would require sellers of broadband services to display information in a uniform and clear manner at the point of sale to allow consumers to easily compare plans and to understand what they are purchasing.