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WASHINGTON, DC – Early this morning, U.S. Representative Angie Craig voted to pass the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to address the unprecedented COVID-19 health and economic crisis. This legislation aims to crush the COVID-19 virus, return children safely to the classroom, get vaccines in the arms of Americans, put dollars into families' pockets and put people back to work.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig released the following statement on the House passage of the Equality Act, a groundbreaking piece of legislation which expands the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other existing statutes to extend non-discrimination protections to the LGBTQ community. Representative Angie Craig is the first openly LGBTQ Member of Congress from Minnesota, a co-chair of the LGBTQ Equality Caucus, and an original cosponsor of the Equality Act.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig delivered a speech on the House floor honoring the life and service of former Minnesota National Guard Specialist Derrick Ameli of Savage, Minnesota. In her remarks, Craig addressed the urgent need to tackle the suicide epidemic in this country – especially among the nation's veterans – and urged Americans to destigmatize mental health treatment.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and John Hoeven (R-ND) reintroduced the bipartisan Feed Emergency Enhancement During Disasters with Cover Crops Act (FEEDD Act). The FEEDD Act will provide farmers and ranchers emergency flexibility to help alleviate livestock feed shortages during planting seasons with high levels of prevent plant due to extreme moisture or drought. The U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig held a meeting with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to discuss the federal government's efforts to expand broadband access, particularly for rural and underserved communities. On the call, Craig and Rosenworcel discussed improved broadband mapping, partnerships between the federal government and state and local partners, and efforts to support students and teachers who have increasingly relied on broadband internet during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON, DC — Last week, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure transparency and predictability to the Environmental Protection Agency's small refinery exemption process, which has in recent years undercut the biofuels industry and threatened the economies of rural communities dependent on the Renewable Fuel Standard.
WASHINGTON, DC — This week, U.S. Representative Angie joined 79 of her Democratic colleagues in the House in requesting that President Joe Biden fill the existing vacancies on the United States Postal Service's Board of Governors as quickly as possible. In their letter, the Members raised their concerns about decision-making by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who has been accused of politicizing the previously nonpartisan agency and causing a decline in service levels for the USPS.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) led Co-Chairs of the Congressional Biofuels Caucus in introducing bipartisan legislation to ensure transparency and predictability to the Environmental Protection Agency's small refinery exemption (SRE) process.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, in a House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing hosted by the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, U.S. Representative Angie Craig expressed gratitude to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for establishing an intra-agency task force dedicated to implementing long-overdue improvements to the agency's broadband data and mapping tools.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig announced the introduction of legislation aimed to ensure that COVID-19 vaccinations are equitably allocated and distributed. The COVID-19 Vaccine Fairness Act would direct the Biden Administration to report on their efforts to effectively deliver and administer the vaccine to all communities. Craig's legislation would also require the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to report vaccination rates by race, ethnicity and geography.