Two stories that you may have missed : Dean Phillips (MN03), Collin Peterson (MN07) and 82 of their colleagues wrote in a bipartisan letter that funding for homeless veterans needed to be approved noting a report that in January 2018, there were 37,878 homeless vets including 14,566 unsheltered or living on the streets. The Trump […]

Today, the official 2020 Election season starts … pitting Jim “Mr. Conservative” Hagedorn against the re-branded Jim “working-across-the-aisle delivering for Minnesota’s First District” Hagedorn. Today, the House is scheduled to vote on H R 4405 The Women’s Business Centers Improvement Act of 2019 which Congressman Hagedorn is the lead Republican and authored by Kansas Third […]

The phrase “Trust but verify” was appropriate in 1987 warned Ronald Reagan after the signing of the INF Treaty with Mikhail Gorbachev …. today, the new phrase is “Never trust Trump, Always verify” … and that needs to apply to his sycophants also. Hence read Congressman Jim Hagedorn’s press release “Hagedorn Lends Support to Renewable […]

Finally, MN01 Congressman Jim Hagedorn has authored his first legislative bill … on September 24, 2019, H R 4469 the American Workforce Employment Act was introduced. Note : Some constituents may have read that Congressman Hagedorn “is author of the Student Empowerment Act” … which implies that he was the originator and driving force behind […]

I miss John Kline … well sorta … don’t get me wrong Angie Craig is a vast improvement … but sometimes Kline would say thing that just made sense. Take shutdowns … remember when Kline said “Minnesotans don’t want a government shutdown. I’ll continue to fight on their behalf and call on the Senate to […]

The MN Political Roundtable has written many commentaries advocating for veterans health care as they, and their families, confront the impacts of Agent Orange … and with President Trump mantra — “I don’t think anybody’s been more with the military than I” — and a Republican-controlled Congress, this was the 115th Congress that would provide […]

President Donald J. Trump has promised to “take the mantle” and be “proud” for funding lapses during the latest government shutdown. And that funding lapse has caused some “image” concern in the political class. And as in the past, some Members are already alerting their constituents that they are requesting that their pay be withheld. […]

You’ve heard his words before … As a candidate for President, I promised to make reforming the VA one of my absolute highest priorities. In every generation there have been heroes like them, patriots who answer the call to serve, who do whatever it takes, wherever and whenever we need them to defend America.  They […]