Ana Radelat is MinnPost’s Washington, D.C. correspondent. You can reach her at aradelat@minnpost.com or follow her on Twitter at @radelat.
The Biden administration has tasked several federal agencies to do what they can to help beleaguered tenants. But there’s a limit to what the White House can do.
The moratorium will bar Twin Metals from constructing a proposed copper, cobalt and nickel mine.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made good on promises to oust two California Democrats from an intelligence committee but would need a full vote of the U.S. House to remove Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Minnesota farmer James Wolf made $46 million selling what he promoted as organic grains to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. But the FBI says the crops he sold as organic were not.
Plus: Klobuchar goes after Ticketmaster and the Supreme Court fails to find leaker of draft abortion decision.
The debt increased dramatically recently due to the Trump and Biden administrations’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis, which resulted in unprecedented federal spending to try to keep the U.S. economy afloat.
Permanent federal protection of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is likely now out of reach and the new GOP House of Representatives will try to ease federal rules for the mine permitting process.
Plus: Fischbach trades Ag committee for Ways and Means, D.C. lawmakers allowed housing subsidies
Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeen’s story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast.
Emmer’s new leadership office on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol was ground zero for the efforts to quell GOP rebellion.
Without a speaker, there are no rules governing the day-to-day operations of the 434 House lawmakers and their staffs, and those lawmakers cannot be sworn in to the 118th Congress.
Plus: Minnesota farmers, miners take issue with new definition of U.S. waters, Post Office fails to deliver
Attempts to vote Rep. Kevin McCarthy speaker failed three times when 19 Republican hardliners voted for other GOP candidates in the first two roll calls and 20 voted against him in the third roll call.
House Republicans are also expected to pass a number of “messaging” bills. Minnesota’s Democratic House members have the opportunity to flex their muscles as lawmakers in opposition.
The eight members of the House from Minnesota introduced more than 200 bills during the 117th Congress, which was gaveled in in January of 2021. Only 25 of those bills passed the House and even fewer were made into law.
Plus: Congress rushes to avert government shutdown
Plus: Food banks ask for more federal help on Capitol Hill, including Minnesota’s Second Harvest Heartland.
The incoming House Republican majority whip who represents Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday continued to blame Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler for the collapse of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that’s in bankruptcy.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is now threatened by a lawsuit, and advocates hope the U.S. Senate will reach an immigration deal that’s under discussion in the dwindling last days of this session of Congress.
Plus: Omar gets a promotion and Emmer again supports same-sex and interracial marriage while other Minnesota Republicans vote no.
