Press Releases

Hoeven Meets with North Dakota School Nutrition Professionals to Push Child Nutrition Reauthorization

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, who serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee, met with the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and school food service directors to plan strategies to...

Hoeven Announces More Than $14 Million in Fish & Wildlife Service Grants to Support Outdoor Recreation

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has awarded two grants totaling $14.3 million...

Hoeven Introduces Amendments to Strengthen Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven spoke on the Senate floor to press colleagues to support two amendments he has introduced to the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. The Hoeven legislation...

Hoeven, Manchin Make Case for Their Coal Ash Recycling Legislation Before Environment and Public Works Committee

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) this week made the case before the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee for their bipartisan legislation that...

Hoeven: NSF Awards Nearly $1 Million to Support Small Business Innovation, Agriculture Research in North Dakota

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded two grants totaling $951,110 to Renuvix, a...

Hoeven: Ag Committee Advances Plan to Address GMO Labeling

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, who serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee, today announced that the committee has advanced new legislation to address GMO labeling. The measure will avert a...

Hoeven Announces $435,000 Grant to NDSU for Cancer Research

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, who serves on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded...

Hoeven Congratulates Minot Airport On Opening of New Terminal

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today congratulated all those who have been working on Minot International Airport’s new terminal on the first day of flights from the facility. “The expansion...

Hoeven Gets Pledge to Bring Interior Official to N.D., Continues Work to Prevent Energy Regulation Overreach

WASHINGTON – During a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week, Senator John Hoeven got a commitment from Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to send a...

Hoeven Announces Nearly $2 Million in Grants for Housing Services Across North Dakota

WASHINGTON — Senator John Hoeven, who serves on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded grants totaling $1,923,067...

Hoeven: Grand Forks Recognized as Great American Defense Community

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the Association of Defense Communities has recognized the City of Grand Forks as a Great American Defense Community. Earlier this month, Hoeven...

Hoeven: USDA Approves Loan, Grants to Support Rural Development in Cass and Grant Counties

WASHINGTON — Senator John Hoeven, who serves on the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee and Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development has awarded...