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Minnpost: A nicer-sounding Trump comes to Congress: Republicans love it. Democrats aren’t buying it.
Rep. Tom Emmer was on his feet, clapping and cheering, for most of Donald Trump’s first address to Congress as president. Rep. Keith Ellison spent nearly all of it in his seat, stone-faced.
Minnesota’s U.S. House members had plenty to say about President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday.
Here are their statements, which range from super cozy to downright chilly, along with the percentages Trump got in their House districts in the November election:
HIBBING — To keep up with Hibbing’s 227 miles of paved roads and 81 miles of “crumbling” sanitary and storm water sewers, the city needs help.
HERMANTOWN, MN -
Congressmen Rick Nolan listened to Northland county and municipal leaders in Hermantown today about funding concerns when it comes to transportation and infrastructure.
Hermantown Mayor, Wyane Boucher, said the town has little money to maintain and fix the roads.
Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) sat down with Iron Range leaders Friday afternoon to talk transportation and infrastructure. As one Iron Range mayor explained, wastewater facilities are aging and costing cities a lot of money. "Currently, Keewatin's plant is aging.
HERMANTOWN, Minn.- U.S Congressman Rick Nolan held a transportation forum in Hermantown Saturday.
Local leaders and stakeholders were invited to discuss transportation and infrastructure needs in the Northland. Attendees included wastewater treatment managers, city planners, and economic developers.
HIBBING — Iron Range officials expressed their concerns to U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan on Friday about the lack of federal funding for multi-million dollar projects to replace aging wastewater treatment facilities, as well as millions of dollars needed to update treatment facilities to meet changing discharge limits on mercury.
Mining hadn't even been proposed yet. There was still just mineral exploration in far Northeastern Minnesota, the drilling down into the Earth to see what was there, to see if there was enough to help satisfy our nation's hunger for the copper and other metals that power our everyday existence, our necessities like cell phones, cars and lights.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan on Tuesday joined Republican Congressman David McKinley of West Virginia to introduce legislation allowing employees of federal prisons to carry firearms while commuting to and from work. The bill, H.R. 613, requires that a secure storage area be provided for employees to store their personal firearms while on the job, a release said.