Press Releases

Hoeven Outlines ND Priorities to Secretary Vilsack

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade, this week...

Hoeven Joins Effort Outlining Unlawful Freezing of Border Wall Funding

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Committee, this week joined Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) in urging Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller Gene...

Hoeven Statement on Vote to Confirm U.S. Trade Representative

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after voting to confirm Katherine Tai as U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). “Access to foreign markets is vital for businesses throughout...

Hoeven Helps Introduce Legislation to Advance Construction of CCUS Infrastructure

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today helped introduce the Storing CO2 and Lowering Emissions Act (SCALE) Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to advance the construction of the infrastructure needed to implement carbon capture,...

Hoeven Votes to Confirm Guzman as SBA Administrator

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after voting to confirm Isabel Guzman as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).  “The SBA has played a...

Hoeven, Cramer Introduce Legislation to Extend Refined Coal Tax Credit, Support Continued Emissions Reductions

WASHINGTON – Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer today reintroduced legislation to extend the refined coal tax credit. The credit incentivizes power plants to pre-treat or refine coal to improve...

Hoeven Announces USDA Rural Development Loan to Minnkota Power Cooperative

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...

Hoeven Outlines Need to Properly Value Reliability and Resiliency of Baseload Power

WASHINGTON – At a recent hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on grid reliability and resiliency in the midst of recent extreme weather events, Hoeven outlined the...

Hoeven Statement in Opposition to Interior Secretary Nominee

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement opposing the confirmation of Representative Debra Haaland as U.S. Secretary of the Interior. “We have serious concerns about Representative Haaland’s record...

Hoeven Joins Colleagues In Pressing OMB to Reject MSA Minimum Population Standard Increase

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today joined Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) and others in urging the Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Robert Fairweather to reject recommendations that would...

Hoeven Statement on Vote Opposing Confirmation of EPA Administrator

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after voting to oppose the confirmation of Michael Regan as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “The Biden administration’s executive...

Hoeven Statement on Voting Against Garland’s Nomination as U.S. Attorney General

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after voting to oppose the confirmation of Merrick Garland as U.S. Attorney General. “Based on his judicial record and his responses...