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WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) today voted against H.R. 2 – a partisan infrastructure package that prioritizes pie in the sky ideas from the Green New Deal over the interests and economic opportunity of rural America. The bill passed by a vote of 233-188.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) today introduced the “Direct Pork Assistance Package Act” - legislation to provide an additional $5 billion to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Office of the Secretary to mitigate losses incurred by livestock farmers due to the coronavirus.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) issued the following statement regarding the enactment and implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on July 1, 2020:
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Elaine Chao in support of the City of Rochester’s application, under USDOT’s 2020 Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grant program, to secure the necessary funds for the North Broadway Reconstruction Project.
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) led a bipartisan coalition of 14 House colleagues in a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar seeking guidance in addressing the growing concerns of thousands of Critical Access Hospitals across the country.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine Chao expressing his support for and the importance of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT) grant application for the US Highway 14 four-lane expansion from New Ulm to Nicollet.
NORTH MANKATO, Minn. – Today, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) unveiled a grant of nearly half a million dollars over the course of three years for South Central College in North Mankato to develop an Advanced Agriculture Technology (AAT) program.
ROCHESTER, Minn. – Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) and Rochester Mayor Kim Norton announced yesterday that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded the City of Rochester a grant of more than $3.1 million to invest in a low-emissions public transportation project to demonstrate battery-powered bus technology.
BLUE EARTH, Minn. – Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) today announced that the Mayo Health System has received an additional allocation of 48 vials of the antiviral drug, Remdesivir, to help fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since May 9, three southern Minnesota health systems – Avera, Mayo and Sanford – have received a total of 242 vials of the drug from the U.S.