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Hoeven Successfully Works to Halt Increase in Grassland Grazing Fees

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the U.S. Forest Service has agreed to halt a planned increase in grazing fees for the National Grasslands in the nine Great...

Hoeven Continues Working to Provide Flexibility in School Meal Programs

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, who serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee and chairs the Agriculture, Rural Development and Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Committee, this week delivered the keynote...

Hoeven CoSponsors, Senate Passes Legislation to Extend Veterans Choice Program

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the U.S. Senate has passed legislation he cosponsored to extend the Veterans Choice Program, which was set to expire in August. The...

Hoeven Announces Nearly $170,000 Economic Development Investment to Help Improve the Economy in the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Community

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded...

Hoeven: Ag Committee Advances Perdue Nomination

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today released the following statement after the Senate Agriculture Committee voted to approve former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and advance his nomination to the full...

Hoeven: Interior Department Begins Process to Roll Back Methane, Hydraulic Fracturing Rules and Rescind the Moratorium on Federal Coal Leasing

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy Committee, today joined Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to begin implementing the President’s executive order promoting domestic energy production. Secretary...

Hoeven: Gorsuch Right for North Dakota

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven released the following statement after meeting this week with Judge Neil Gorsuch, who has been nominated to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme...

Hoeven Joins President at Signing of Executive Order on Energy Independence

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy Committee, today joined the president as he signed an executive order promoting energy independence by rolling back regulations hampering...

Hoeven: FEMA Grants Extension for Drayton Levee

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has agreed to a month-long extension for Drayton to keep in place its earthen levee built...

Hoeven: President Signs CRA Protecting Multiple Use on Federal Lands, Repealing BLM Planning 2.0 Rule

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement today after the President signed into law legislation repealing the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Planning 2.0” rule under the Congressional...

Hoeven Statement on Approval of Keystone XL Pipeline

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement today after the Trump Administration approved the permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline.  “After being delayed for nearly a decade,...

Hoeven: Perdue Agrees to Visit North Dakota, See Agricultural Research, Meet with Producers

WASHINGTON – At a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing today, Senator John Hoeven invited former Governor George “Sonny” Perdue, the nominee to be U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, to North Dakota to meet with...