Ana Radelat is MinnPost’s Washington, D.C. correspondent. You can reach her at aradelat@minnpost.com or follow her on Twitter at @radelat.
A Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that despite hardships, a vast majority of transgender adult respondents said they were happier than before they transitioned.
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Plus: Craig targeted by GOP, again.
Black farmers made up only 1.4% of the nation’s 3.4 million producers, according to the 2017 Census for Agriculture, the latest federal dataset on American farmland demographics.
Sent just hours after Fox News called the election for Joe Biden, Minnesotan Marlene Bourne’s wild email falsely claimed “a piece of software” was inserted into Dominion voting machines that would change votes for Donald Trump to Biden.
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The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a proposed rule that would allow the makers of beverages made from soybeans, almonds, oats and other plants to continue to label their products milk, as long as the non-dairy products employ qualifiers such as “soy milk” or “almond milk.”
About 50 public officials, labor leaders and nonprofit executives from the state were in Washington, D.C., this week to thank the Biden administration for funneling federal dollars to their priorities.
The Pentagon provides Minnesota with the most federal contracts, totaling $10 billion last year.
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Minnesota’s members of Congress and their staffers took more than two dozen trips last year to places as diverse as Fargo, N.D., Spain and Tel Aviv, Israel. Those trips were valued at more than $63,000.
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The panel approved Looman’s nomination last year after she was chosen by President Biden to become the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division. But the Senate never acted to confirm her.
The average wish list from a Republican was $20 million higher than the average request from a Democrat.
It’s the National Governors Association’s (NGA) winter meeting, an annual rite that gives the nation’s governors access to Cabinet members, Pentagon officials, and even the president and his staff.
Plus: House GOP steps up investigations on Twitter, Biden mining policies, “weaponization” of federal government.
Members of Congress will use the State of the Union to promote pet issues, mainly through the guests they invite to the speech.
Plus: Reps. split on resolution on socialism and Minnesota loses two from the ag committee. Also, a complete article on Rep. Ilhan Omar being ousted from the Foreign Affairs Committee can be found here.
Democrats said GOP members targeted Omar because former Speaker Nancy Pelosi successfully stripped Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar of their committee jobs.
Proposed reform, such as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, was approved by the previous House in 2021 but would need approval in the new Congress, which is GOP-controlled.
