WASHINGTON, June 21 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * - Senator Marks One Year Anniversary of VA MISSION Act Becoming Law & His Veterans Access to Long Term Care and Health Services Act * * * Senator John Hoeven this week spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to mark the anniversary of the passage and signing into law of the VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks (MISSION) Act, legislation to strengthen the VA  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued the following statement after Mexico approved the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement: "Now that Mexico has approved the agreement, the U.S. and Canada should follow. "Access to the Canadian and Mexican markets is incredibly important to our agriculture producers and other industries, which is why we need to get this trade agree  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement after Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Interior Secretary Bernhardt signed the affordable clean energy rule, which replaces the emissions regulations for coal power plants issued by the President Obama: The previous rules unfairly targeted North Dakota and required a 45 percent reduction in the state's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, well above the  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, a chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission announced the formation of a task force to help ensure farmers and ranchers have the connectivity necessary to utilize precision agriculture: The Task Force for Reviewing the Connectivity and Technology Needs of Precision Agriculture, in consultation with  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * - Senator Advancing Partnership between Northern Plains UAS Test Site & Forest Service, Department of Interior * * * At a recent hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator John Hoeven urged Shawna Legarza, Director for Fire Aviation and Management at the U.S. Forest Service, and Jeff Rupert, Director for the Office of Wildland Fire at the Department of the Interior (DO  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * - Senator Pressed USDA to Provide This Flexibility for Producers Using Cover Crops on Prevent Plant Acres * * * Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has heeded his call to provide an earlier haying and grazing date for agriculture producers   more