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Hoeven, Officials Break Ground on New Dakota Prairie Diesel Refinery

DICKINSON, N.D. – Senator John Hoeven today joined officials from MDU Resources Group, Inc. and Calumet Specialty Products Partners to break ground for a new, $300 million diesel refining facility...

Hoeven Presents Donald Diederich WWII Military Honors

DICKINSON, N.D. – At a ceremony in Dickinson today, Senator John Hoeven presented former Technical Sergeant Donald Diederich with a host of medals Mr. Diederich earned for valor in the...

Hoeven Statement on the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution that Passed on A Party-Line Vote Today

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement regarding his vote on the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Resolution, which passed along party lines in the U.S. Senate early this...

Hoeven, Baucus: Senate Passes Bipartisan Amendment in Support of Keystone XL Project

WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today offered an amendment that passed putting the U.S. Senate on record in support of the Keystone XL pipeline. The...

Hoeven Meets with Major General John Peabody to Secure Flood Protection Assurances for Fargo, Minot

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today met with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Mississippi Valley Division Commander Maj. Gen. John Peabody to secure assurances that the budget sequester will not...

Hoeven, Heitkamp, Cramer: North Dakota Bases Critically Important to Air Force, National Defense

WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp and Congressman Kevin Cramer yesterday met with representatives from both the Grand Forks Base Realignment Impact Committee (BRIC) and Minot’s Task Force...

Senate Approves Continuing Resolution to Fund Government for 2013, Makes Necessary Spending Reductions

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement today upon passage of a continuing resolution to fund the federal government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2013, which runs...

Hoeven Cosponsors Amendment Passed by the Senate to Keep Frontline Food Inspectors on the Job

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) today cosponsored an amendment with Senators Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) to the 2013 continuing resolution that will make sure food inspectors...

Hoeven Announces $2 Million FEMA Grant to Aid Minot Flood Recovery

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a $2 million grant to the City of Minot to complete the first phase...

Delegation Encourages North Dakota High School Marching Bands to Apply for 2014 National Independence Day Parade

WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven and Heidi Heitkamp and Congressman Kevin Cramer today announced that the 2014 National Independence Day Parade is seeking applications from high school marching bands interested...

Hoeven Presses President on Keystone XL, Introduces Legislation Enabling Congress to Approve the Project

WASHINGTON – At a meeting Thursday with President Barack Obama and the Republican Senate caucus on Capitol Hill, Senator John Hoeven again pressed the president for a definite timetable and...

Hoeven: Energy Committee Passes Legislation to Streamline Processing of Federal Oil and Gas Permits in ND

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the U.S. Senate Energy Committee has approved the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Streamlining Act, legislation he introduced, along with Senator Heidi...