Thursday morning, Senator Hoeven will meet with members of Task Force 21 to update the group on important provisions to bolster Minot Air Force Base’s missions that were included in the Fiscal Year 2015 omnibus funding bill approved Saturday by the Senate. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Hoeven worked to include provisions […]
Thursday afternoon, Hoeven will meet with members of the Grand Forks Base Realignment Impact Committee (BRIC) to outline key provisions in the Fiscal Year 2015 omnibus funding bill that support missions at Grand Forks Air Force Base and help to further the region as a leader in unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Hoeven worked to include […]
Friday morning, Hoeven will tour the North Dakota National Guard (NDNG) maintenance center in Valley City to discuss the constraints of the existing facility and review plans for the construction of a new vehicle maintenance, training and administrative facility. The project was funded in the 2015 omnibus appropriations legislation, which passed Congress Saturday. Hoeven serves […]
On Monday morning, Senator John Hoeven will meet with the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association to discuss the importance of improving rail service across the state and relieving the backlog of agriculture shipments. Monday, January 19 9:45 a.m. CT: North Dakota Grain Dealers Association Convention Ramkota Hotel, Missouri Ballroom800 South 3rd StreetBismarck -###-
Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will host Gary Doer, Canada’s Ambassador to the United States, at a press conference tomorrow, January 22, at 10:30 a.m. ET to highlight Canada’s record of good environmental stewardship and the need to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project. WHO: Senators John Hoeven and Joe Manchin, and […]
Tonight, Senator Hoeven will help to kick off the opening session of the American Legion, Department of North Dakota’s winter conference. He will discuss his work in the Senate on behalf of veterans and other issues of interest to those who have served our country. The American Legion, Department of North Dakota, is a community […]
U.S. Senator John Hoeven and Congressman Kevin Cramer will be in Bismarck Monday morning to discuss the next steps in advancing Hoeven’s Keystone XL approval legislation, which has now passed both the Senate and the House. The underlying legislation, slightly amended in the Senate, was authored and introduced by Hoeven. Congressman Cramer introduced the same […]
At a public meeting this afternoon, Senator Hoeven will join local leaders from Fargo-Moorhead in pressing Maj. Gen. Michael C. Wehr, Commander for the Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to continue moving forward on permanent flood protection for the area. Maj. Gen. Weher assumed command of the division this past […]
Wednesday morning, Senator Hoeven will visit Grand Forks Air Force Base (GFAFB) to celebrate the signing of the base’s Enhanced Use Lease (EUL), which allows for the development of Grand Sky, a high-tech unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology and business park that is projected to create up to 3,000 jobs. For years, Hoeven has led […]
Senator Hoeven will go to the University of Mary to participate in the university’s new “Leadership Series,” in which elected officials discuss a variety of pressing national and international issues. 2:00 p.m. CT: University of Mary Roundtable Tharaldson School of BusinessBismarck
Friday morning, Hoeven will attend an event at BNI Coal’s Center Mine. BNI mines about 4.5 million tons of lignite per year, helping to power eastern North Dakota and northern Minnesota. At the mine, Hoeven will receive updates about BNI’s operations and view the moving of the Liberty dragline, the first time in North Dakota […]
Senator Hoeven will tour Minnkota Power’s Milton R. Young Station, just south of Center Mine, where he will discuss the EPA’s recent decision to uphold North Dakota’s state plan on regional haze and see the emissions-reduction equipment that is vital to this plan. He will also give industry officials updates on his efforts to block the […]
