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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) recently introduced legislation that would rename the Akeley Post Office after Neal Kenneth Todd, an Akeley native who perished during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Neal's remains were recently identified and returned home to Akeley, where he was finally laid to rest next to his family. Every Member of the Minnesota delegation cosponsored this legislation.
Congressman Stauber had the honor of attending his funeral and presenting Neal's family with an American flag he had flown over the United States Capitol.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) introduced legislation incentivizing manufacturers to purchase domestically sourced and processed critical minerals. The Manufacturing America's Mineral Security Act will help put an end to America's dependence on unreliable foreign nations like the Communist Regime of China for critical minerals that power our economy and secure our national defense.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) introduced the Healthy Forests for Hunters Act, legislation to boost forest management for the benefit of hunting and recreating on our public lands.
Stauber's legislation is included in the rollout of comprehensive forest management legislation titled the Resilient Federal Forests Act, led by Congressman Bruce Westerman, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee.
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, platinum-group elements, and others, along with aggregates within the Rainy River Watershed and the Superior National Forest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
During this markup, Democrats broke from the decades-long tradition of bipartisanship surrounding transportation and infrastructure negotiations and blocked almost every Republican amendment, including Stauber's commonsense provision to help end child labor.
The 100 or so people who attended a roundtable with U.S. Congressman Pete Stauber CD-8, on Thursday went away with a homework assignment to get the word out about Highway 8 and its shortfalls. They were told to contact state leaders. Correspond with federal transportation officials. Contact transportation commissioners. Make sure everybody knows what Highway 8 needs and why.
Congressman Pete Stauber visited the Brainerd Exchange Thursday, June 1, in an intimate session with supporters regarding gun rights and the Second Amendment.