U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of home-state lawmakers in urging the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise the proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation (MFAR), which they think would negatively impact Minnesotans who Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) is the co-founder of the new bipartisan Congressional Broadcasters Caucus. “I am proud to co-chair this important caucus and further the conversations about how to support this vital industry,” said Rep. Emmer, who established the Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) last week joined a bipartisan home-state delegation in calling for an increase in Readjustment Counseling Services (RCS) for U.S. military service members and their families in Minnesota’s underserved, rural areas. The RCS provides services including Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) last week joined a bipartisan, bicameral delegation of his Minnesota colleagues in urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide more federal funds and to reassess its 2019 damages estimate following last spring’s destructive Read more…
U.S. Reps. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Pete Stauber (R-MN) on Feb. 5 rebuked legislation that would permanently withdraw 234,328 acres of federal land and waters in the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota, threatening the state’s mining industry. “I am Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Jan. 30 sponsored legislation to improve accountability and oversight of same-day medical and mental health services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). “Our veterans deserve the best possible care this country Read more…
U.S. Reps. Tom Emmer (R-MN), Dan Newhouse (R-WA), and Darin LaHood (R-IL) on Jan. 29 joined the president during a White House signing ceremony to make the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Implementation Act a new federal law. “Today is the Read more…
U.S. Reps. Pete Stauber (R-MN) and Tom Emmer (R-MN) this week slammed a newly introduced bill that would reinstate a mining ban in their home state’s Superior National Forest. “I am absolutely outraged to hear another harmful piece of legislation Read more…
U.S. Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), French Hill (R-AR), Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Steve Womack (R-AR) commended passage on Dec. 19 by the U.S. House of Representatives of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Implementation Act. “USMCA sets the stage for billions Read more…
U.S. Reps. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Pete Stauber (R-MN) joined a bipartisan, bicameral contingent of their home-state colleagues in requesting grant selection information from the Department of Transportation (DOT), which reportedly skipped awarding certain federal transportation project funds to Minnesota. Read more…
Any upcoming fiscal year (FY) 2020 spending agreement should address the looming 2.3-percent excise tax on medical devices that’s set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) wrote in a Nov. 6 letter sent Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) this week introduced the Expanding Access to Inpatient Mental Health Act, according to his office. “Every community throughout the country has been struggling with the same challenge: providing adequate mental health care to individuals experiencing Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) last week said he intends to introduce a bill that would bolster the nation’s securities law to help provide regulatory certainty for digital assets and other emerging technologies. “Companies that have followed our current rules Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) this week offered legislation to provide temporary protection for the tax treatment of hard forks of convertible virtual currency while administrative guidance does not exist. Rep. Emmer introduced the Safe Harbor for Taxpayers with Forked Read more…
Mental health services will be provided to America’s farmers, ranchers and other rural agricultural workers under funding included in a package of fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills for the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN), a reauthorization pushed for Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and his Minnesota Republican colleagues seek fast approval of the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement (USMCA) to grow their home-state’s trade economy. “Canada and Mexico have long been important trade partners for the business and agriculture industries in Read more…
U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) this week headed a bipartisan contingent in supporting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s proposed rule to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the contiguous United States. “The gray wolf should Read more…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to take up advice offered recently by U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and several colleagues to provide additional guidance for American taxpayers regarding the tax consequences and basic reporting requirements for virtual currency transactions. Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) earlier this week commended action by U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary of Land and Minerals Management Joe Balash to renew two Twin Metals Minnesota LLC-held hardrock mineral leases. The renewed licenses, signed by Read more…
U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) on May 7 sponsored legislation that would require the administration to more efficiently develop domestic sources of minerals of strategic and critical importance to the economic, national security and manufacturing competitiveness of the United States. Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) wants Americans with non-traditional forms of income, including those who are creditworthy independent contractors or self-employed, to have improved access to mortgage products. “America was founded by innovators and no one embodies that spirit more Read more…
U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) helped lead a bipartisan contingent of 50 other congressional members in requesting that U.S. House leadership include workforce development investments in any legislation being crafted to bolster the nation’s infrastructure. “Any successful infrastructure package Read more…
An amendment offered by U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) to improve victim care and investigations into alleged sexual assaults made it into the bipartisan, U.S. House-approved Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) of 2019. House Amendment (H.Amdt.) 130, which Rep. Read more…
U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) last week championed a bipartisan, bicameral bill to support the continued growth of America’s $1.5 trillion technology sector by reducing the nation’s shortage of qualified tech workers. “As the technology sector Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Feb. 26 introduced legislation that would guarantee federal funds continued flowing to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support certain medical device manufacturers during federal funding gaps. “Patients deserve access to life-saving Read more…
U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) this week led dozens of bipartisan members in requesting that U.S. House leadership promptly address the “unresolved issue” regarding the nation’s currently expired biodiesel tax incentive. Last February, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 retroactively Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Jan. 16 reintroduced bipartisan legislation to help improve the care and treatment of sexual assault victims and bolster how law enforcement investigates and prosecutes such cases. The Abby Honold Act, H.R. 600, is named Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and his home state Democratic colleagues in Congress expressed “serious concerns” about a recent notice from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the amount of 2019 federal funding allotted for Minnesota’s reinsurance Read more…
Proposed legislation from U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) would include the financing of certain trailers and campers in the United States tax code. The Travel Trailer and Camper Technical Correction Act, H.R. 6969, would amend the Internal Revenue Code of Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the new co-chair of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, plans to unveil three pro-growth proposals to hasten the advancement of blockchain technology and digital currencies. “The United States should prioritize accelerating the development of blockchain technology Read more…
To help support home-state farmers across America, U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) spearheaded a bipartisan group of 23 U.S. House members in seeking approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for year-round sales of E15 fuel. E15, a higher Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Sept. 6 commended the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) cancellation of an Obama-era mineral withdrawal application for the Superior National Forest in his home state. “The Department of Agriculture’s move today to cancel the Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer’s (R-MN) Main Street Growth Act passed the U.S. House on July 10, moving the measure closer to becoming a federal law. “The House took an important step to add to this economy’s growing momentum by passing Read more…
U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN) led 39 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in urging the removal of almost $3 billion worth of Chinese medical device products from a list of proposed tariffs set to be imposed on the Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) is helping steer a Congressional Western Caucus initiative regarding American mineral mining that is championed by Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Emmer and other members of the caucus seek a comprehensive Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on May 1 applauded a recent state funding win toward fixing Minnesota’s highways, but said the work has only just begun. “While this is a major step forward, it is still just the beginning,” said Read more…
U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) led 46 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in calling for President Donald Trump to tread lightly on American agriculture while taking China to task over trade dealings with the United States. “Your leadership Read more…
U.S. Reps. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) and Mimi Walters (R-CA) led Republican lawmakers in calling on President Donald Trump to maintain the nation’s participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and to reform the trade pact for the next Read more…
A host of agricultural industry groups have voiced support for bipartisan legislation from U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) that would make mental health treatment more available to farmers, an occupation the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports has Read more…
A bipartisan bill from U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) offering certain investors more capital to help grow America’s small and medium-sized businesses has become law as part of the $1.3 trillion omnibus government funding bill signed by the president on Read more…
U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers’ (R-OH) SAFE Transitional License Act, H.R. 2948, a bipartisan measure to provide regulatory relief for registered mortgage loan originators changing employment, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 14 as part of a legislative package Read more…
U.S. Rep. French Hill’s (R-AR) legislation to better serve American homebuyers and offer regulatory relief to financial institutions passed the House of Representatives on Feb. 14. The TRID (TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure) Improvement Act of 2017, H.R. 3978, modifies disclosure requirements Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer’s (R-MN) bipartisan Home Mortgage Disclosure Adjustment Act, H. R. 2954, a bill to reduce regulatory overreach so that Main Street lenders can help expand home and business ownership, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. Read more…
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Jan. 8 introduced the Preventing Excessive Mutual Fund Litigation Act, H.R. 4738, to deter the overuse of unwarranted lawsuits that may impact how Americans pool their resources to purchase stocks, bonds or other securities. Read more…
U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen’s (R-MN) bipartisan legislation supporting craft brewers in Minnesota and across the country, which became law as part of the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act recently signed by President Donald Trump, will help independent and small Read more…
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved its version of a bipartisan proposal originally introduced in the Senate by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that would establish a national family caregivers support strategy. The House on Dec. 18 passed the Read more…
Newly proposed legislation by U.S. Reps. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Randy Hultgren (R-IL) would give America’s Main Street banks and credit unions more time to comply with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) stringent mortgage loan data requirements. The Home Read more…
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller’s (R-NV) legislation giving states an interim path to proceed with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), The Chip Stability Act, was signed into law on Dec. 8 by President Donald Trump. Heller’s legislation was incorporated into Read more…
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), as well as U.S. Reps. Ryan Costello (R-PA) and Tom Emmer (R-MN), on Friday introduced legislation to help states continue providing health care services for vulnerable children under the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The Read more…
Local job creation with responsible natural resource development in Minnesota got a boost on Thursday as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Minnesota’s Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act, a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer Read more…