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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) released the following statement after voting no on the impeachment resolution.
"For weeks, Adam Schiff and Speaker Pelosi have deprived the American people of a fair and transparent impeachment process by holding closed door hearings, preventing Members of Congress from listening in on the cross examination of witnesses, stopping Republican Members from calling their own witnesses, and leaking cherry-picked bits of testimony to members of the press.
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.
Republican Congressman Pete Stauber and two members of his staff joined a local father and son for the "Congress on Your Corner" event, along with a visitor from the Moorhead area who decided to attend after a golf outing near Duluth was rained out.
"I'm very happy with a lot of the conservative policies that have happened over the last three years," said Ramsay Trix, a constituent of Rep. Collin Peterson (DFL-7th Dist.). "I'm horrified by Donald Trump, the way he has treated the office of the presidency."
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.
DULUTH, MN– Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) visited Duluth Wednesday, taking part in a rural healthcare round table.
Stauber joined other key health care players to hash out some of the biggest needs, including finding ways to help the Northland's most rural hospitals stay competitive.
"One of the ways we do that is make sure we deploy broadband internet, so that access via the internet, that telemedicine is available. We want our rural health care facilities to remain viable and competitive," Stauber said.
On Thursday 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.
"Despite its evident recovery, the gray wolf remains listed due to arbitrary judicial decisions made thousands of miles away from gray wolf territory. In Minnesota, keeping the gray wolf on the Endangered Species List threatens our very way of life, as the animal cannot be deterred while attacks on family-owned livestock and pets increase," said Stauber.
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.