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The House on Wednesday approved an election security bill that has been a top demand from Democrats’ most vulnerable members.
As Rep. Betty McCollum sees it the federal government should do all it can to help protect people in hiding from stalkers and abusers, and that's the aim of a bill she introduced Tuesday.
Rep. McCollum's "Safe at Home Act" would require all federal agencies to accept the post office box addresses that states provide to victims in order to keep their whereabouts confidential.
The Minnesota secretary of state’s office is known for elections. Voter registration. Election security.
Minnesota Democratic lawmakers are leading a push to ensure the federal government does its part to shield the home addresses of domestic abuse survivors.
U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Eden Prairie) will host a community conversation on climate change and environmental protections in Hopkins on Oct. 26, according to an email from Eden Prairie’s Citizens Climate Lobby and the Facebook event page.
Long before businessman Dean Phillips became a congressman, he was sitting in Carolyn Olson’s farm home near Cottonwood, Minnesota, in 2008.
Olson, co-owner of Olson Organics and a self-described outgoing person, was talking with Phillips about her farming operation that’s located 140 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday subpoenaed President Trump’s top negotiator for Afghanistan, complaining that the administration had stonewalled lawmakers’ attempts to get a straight story about its strategy for bringing the war there to an end.
Students are invited to create an app and submit it to the 3rd Congressional District's Congressional App Challenge, a news release from U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips' office says.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson does not trust his fellow Democrats to get it right on guns.
“If I hear the words ‘common sense gun legislation’ one more time, I’ll throw up,” said western Minnesota’s long-serving congressman. “This is poll-tested nonsense.”
U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Deephaven) hosts a public town hall meeting 9:30-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at Chanhassen High School Auditorium, 2200 Lyman Blvd., Chanhassen.