Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) joined Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Congressional colleagues, and industry stakeholders in a roundtable to discuss skyrocketing energy prices and how the Democrat reconciliation bill will only exacerbate this energy crisis.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) recently led a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer, demanding they listen to American middle class families, labor unions, and rural electric cooperatives by eliminating the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), or carbon tax, from reconciliation negotiations and any future consideration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the Biden Administration's weaponization of the Department of Justice to crack down on parents for exercising their First Amendment rights at school board meetings, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) introduced a House Resolution supporting the First Amendment rights of parents who wish to speak out on their child's education.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Upon receiving the news that the Biden Administration is putting forward a new political, partisan obstacle intended to ban mining in northern Minnesota, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) made the following statement slamming the decision:
"Quite simply, President Biden is putting politics over science.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) voted against the Senate provision to raise the debt ceiling. Following the vote, Stauber made the following statement:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) released the following statement celebrating the completion of the Line 3 Replacement Project and the establishment of an in-service date of October 1st.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) voted against the Democrats' Women's Health Protection Act (H.R. 3755), better titled the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act. This legislation would enable abortion on demand until birth by removing nearly all pro-life protections for the unborn and mandating that every state be a late-term abortion state.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, during a full markup of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's portion of Speaker Pelosi's partisan $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, the Democrat majority opposed all Republican amendments, including Congressman Pete Stauber's (MN-08) amendment to ensure purchased green energy technology is not made with minerals sourced by child slave labor in foreign countries.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday and Saturday, U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Cori Bush (D-MO), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashia Tlaib (D-MI) will reportedly visit Minnesota to protest the Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project. In response, U.S. Reps. Pete Stauber (R-MN), Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), and Tom Emmer (R-MN) issued the following statement:
HERMANTOWN, MN – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) made the following statement regarding Minnesota National Guard Members being a significant percentage of the total number of U.S. servicemembers helping evacuate Americans and our allies from Afghanistan: