On Friday Sept. 8th, the Rotary Club of Orono, in partnership with US Congressman Dean Phillips, organized and sponsored a recognition ceremony for Vietnam-era veterans and their families. It was a beautiful morning, with scores of… Read more »

How old is too old to serve in Congress? That's one query on the minds of many who are following the news out of Capitol Hill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is facing questions about his health and political future after appearing to freeze at two different events this summer. The 81-year-old… Read more »

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips sharply criticized a progressive leader in the U.S. House for calling Israel "a racist state" ahead of the Israeli president's speech to Congress.  "To condemn an entire people, to call an entire country racist, is beyond the pale," said Phillips, who is Jewish. "It's anything but… Read more »

Rep. Dean Phillips had somewhat of an outsized role in the drama this week to avoid a calamitous default by raising the nation’s debt ceiling.  Phillips, D-3rd District, was one of 52 mostly centrist Democrats released by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-Calif., to vote for a procedural motion that would allow the… Read more »

WASHINGTON — In 1979, when Dean Phillips was 10 years old, his mother told him a story while driving home from hockey practice that would change him forever: His biological father, a man he had never met before, had been killed in the Vietnam War when Phillips was 6 months old. Since that day in 1979,… Read more »

Rep. Dean Phillips is willing to offer House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a lifeline if he is challenged by the right wing of the GOP for agreeing to a debt ceiling deal that could win bipartisan support.  To win the leadership of a narrow Republican majority, McCarthy agreed to change House rules to allow anyone to challenge his… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips traveled to Ghana and Israel as part of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' first trip as the Democratic leader of the House. The Minnesota Democrat shared images on social media, including one where he stood beside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel celebrated its 75th anniversary. Phillips, who is Jewish,… Read more »

While the U.S. House was on a two-week break earlier this month, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-3rd District, traveled to the spot in rural Vietnam where his father, a captain in the Army  had died in a plane crash 54 years ago.  It was a tearful moment when Phillips arrived… Read more »

What could have been a groundbreaking Minnesota police recruitment bill regrettably fell victim to last-minute gridlock at the State Capitol. But the effort may have opened the door to national legislation that would shine a well-deserved spotlight on a Minnesota program called "Pathways to Policing." The program, used at police… Read more »

A Minnesota model to recruit and retain more-diverse law enforcement candidates could soon go national under proposed legislation aimed at beefing up depleted police ranks across the country. U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., is leading a bipartisan push to pass the Pathways to Policing Act — patterned after a six-year-old Minnesota… Read more »