Press Releases

Hoeven: USDA Extends Area Eligibility Waiver for Summer Nutrition Programs

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extended its area eligibility waiver under...

Hoeven Announces USDA Workforce Training Funds to Two North Dakota Colleges

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded...

Hoeven Announces Additional CARES Act Funding to North Dakota for Housing

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has...

Hoeven Statement After Senate Confirms Brown as Air Force Chief of Staff

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed U.S. Air Force General Charles Brown as the...

Hoeven: USDA Working to Make Livestock Risk Protection Insurance More Flexible & Affordable

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of...

Hoeven: Federal Reserve Expands Main Street Lending Program to Benefit Small & Mid-Sized Businesses

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after the Federal Reserve Board announced that it is further expanding its Main Street Lending Program to benefit more small...

Hoeven Announces $5 Million in Funding for North Dakota to Help Prepare For & Respond to Public Health Emergencies

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Hoeven: Treasury Clarifies PPP Eligibility for Telecommunications Cooperatives

BISMARCK, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued guidance making telecommunications cooperatives...

Hoeven Statement on Department of Justice Advancing Antitrust Inquiry Into Beef Industry

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) formally requested information from meatpacking companies...

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Decision to Vacate the Registrations of Three Dicamba Herbicides

BISMARCK, N.D. – U.S. Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer and Representative Kelly Armstrong issued the following statement on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issuing a decision to...

Hoeven Announces CARES Act Funding Released for Three Additional Airports

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Committee, announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has released Coronavirus Aid, Relief...

Hoeven: EPA Proposes Reforms to Provide Transparency, Certainty When Issuing New Regulations

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed reforming its cost-benefit analysis for new regulations issued under the Clean Air Act to...