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June 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) expressed his strong opposition to the Fiscal Year 2022 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Spending bill which is being led by House Democrats and contains a policy rider authored by Congresswoman Betty McCollum (MN-04) that would halt permitting for critical minerals, including taconite, copper, nickel, cobalt, plati

June 23, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, during a House Natural Resources Committee Hearing, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) questioned Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on this Administration's misguided stance on domestic critical mineral mining and demanded to know why President Biden broke his campaign promise to America's miners.

June 15, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) along with Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06), Congressman Jim Hagedorn (MN-01), and Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) sent a letter to President Biden to express their serious concerns over his proposed "Conserving 30 Percent of America's Land and Waters by 2030" initiative, otherwise known as 30x30.

June 15, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber's (MN-08) aviation safety legislation titled the Notice to Airmen Improvement Act passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. This is Stauber's first bill to pass the House in the 117th Congress.

June 10, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, during a full Transportation and Infrastructure Committee markup on Speaker Pelosi's purely partisan surface transportation legislation, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) led several commonsense amendments including one to combat the tragic practice of child labor.

June 2, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. –This week, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) reintroduced the bipartisan Securing America's Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Act, legislation that will require American agencies to purchase drugs made in the United States and help end dependence on unreliable nations like China for the pharmaceuticals needed to save American lives.

May 14, 2021

HERMANTOWN, MN -- Today, Congressman Stauber (MN-08) announced that Barnum High School Freshman Ivy Polecheck has won first place in the Congressional Art Competition hosted by his office. Judges chose Polecheck's painting, "Relief from the Storm," as the winner out of more than 20 entries from talented students across Minnesota's Eighth Congressional District.

May 13, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During National Police Week, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) led a bipartisan group of Representatives in introducing the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which will ensure labor rights to all public safety officers.

April 28, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) made the following statement after President Joe Biden addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time.