Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) helped introduce H.R. 4903, the Down Syndrome Discrimination by Abortion Prohibition Act, which will place a federal ban on abortions that are based on a Down syndrome diagnosis. Stauber joined Congressman Ron Estes (KS-04) and 30 other members of Congress in introducing this legislation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid the hyper partisan gridlock that's ongoing in Congress, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) announced that his legislation, H.R. 1775, the Notice to Airmen Improvement Act, passed the House with bipartisan support. With the passage of H.R. 1775, Stauber has now passed more stand-alone pieces of legislation through the House this Congress than any other freshman Republican or member of the Minnesota House delegation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) announced that the Department of Justice is awarding over $2 million to four organizations in his district – Anishinabe Legal Services, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Men as Peacemakers, and Mending the Sacred Hoop – to help prevent violence against women.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) announced that Leech Lake Tribal College will receive $80,750 in grant money from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to be used to purchase new information technology, library and security equipment.
HERMANTOWN, MN – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) announced that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will receive a $1,192,245 grant from the 2019 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Anti-Heroin Task Force Program. Specifically, these funds will be used for drug enforcement purposes, including investigations and activities related to the unlawful distribution of heroin and prescription opioids.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) and Congressman Collin Peterson (MN-07) introduced the Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2019, which would return the management of the gray wolf to state control.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) voted to pass H.R. 4031, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2019, of which he is an original cosponsor, out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. This legislation would reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) for another five years and increase its annual funding level from $300 million to $475 million by fiscal year 2026.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) announced that the Department of Transportation has allocated grant money to two vital airports in Minnesota's Eighth District. The Duluth Sky Harbor will receive $971,946 in funds for the construction of a runway and Falls International-Einarson Field will receive $15,873,211 in funds for a variety of purposes, including the reconstruction of a runway.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) made the following statement after the Trump Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers finalized the repeal of the harmful Waters of the Unites States (WOTUS) rule, put into effect by the Obama Administration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) announced that St. Louis County, Minnesota was approved to become part of the existing High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program.
The HIDTA Program, a key component of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), provides counties with federal resources to assist the coordination and development of drug control efforts among Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement officials.