Press Releases

Hoeven Announces FEMA Grant for More Than $1 Million to Washburn

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a $1,026,025 grant to fund a Washburn...

Hoeven, Peterson Hold Meeting with Sugar Growers, Outline Work to Provide Assistance to Producers

FARGO, N.D. – At a Red River Valley sugarbeet farm today, Senator John Hoeven, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and Collin Peterson, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee...

Hoeven Outlines Efforts to Secure Agriculture Assistance, Ensure Conservation Programs are Farmer-Friendly

BISMARCK, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven today addressed the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation District’s annual meeting, where he outlined his work to secure disaster and trade assistance for...

Hoeven Announces More Than $2 Million for Mohall Municipal Airport

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Committee, today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded $2,400,000 to...

Hoeven, Peterson Working to Secure Assistance for Sugar Growers Impacted by Disasters

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, and Representative Collin Peterson, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, joined Tom Astrup, CEO of American Crystal Sugar...

Hoeven Statement on Government Funding Through December 20

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement after the Senate passed legislation to keep the government funded through December 20,...

Hoeven Working to Support U.S. Sugar Producers

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven this week urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support American sugar producers and avoid taking any premature actions, including increasing sugar imports. The...

Hoeven Secures Committee Passage of Savanna’s Act & Inclusion in VAWA Reauthorizaton

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today helped advance Savanna’s Act, legislation he cosponsored that requires reporting on missing and murdered Native Americans,...

Hoeven Announces Grants for Rural Education

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Office of Rural Development has awarded funding from the...

Hoeven: Senate Committee Advances Restore our Parks Act

WASHINGTON – At a meeting of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this week, Senator John Hoeven helped secure committee approval of the Restore Our Parks Act, bipartisan legislation...

Hoeven: FERC Initiates Process to Alleviate Propane Shortages, Allows Emergency Transportation to the Midwest

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced that it...

Hoeven Presses FERC to Increase Access to Propane

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today pressed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to provide increased access to propane supplies given the needs in North Dakota and other Midwest states....