Press Releases
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.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01), a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, today introduced legislation titled the “Livestock Producer Assistance for COVID-19 Damages Act."
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM) and Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) introduced the bipartisan Save Our Rural Health Providers Act to ensure COVID-19 relief funding is dedicated to supporting rural healthcare providers across the country. The bill’s companion has been introduced by U.S.
MINNESOTA – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08), Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) and Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) sent a letter to Governor Walz requesting that he work with the state legislature to ensure federal funds that were provided by the bipartisan CARES Act are quickly and equitably distributed to local governments across greater Minnesota.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) today led a coalition of nine of his U.S. House colleagues in sending a letter to National Governors Association Chairman Larry Hogan (R-MD) encouraging our nation’s governors to establish guidelines for the responsible, safe and prompt reopening of hospitals and other medical care providers to the general public in their respective states.