Preparing Students for 21st Century Jobs and Addressing the Nation’s “Skills Gap”  I believe that every student should be able to get the skills necessary to

Improvements to Career and Technical Education Passed into Law I have some big news to share: provisions I authored to improve career and technical education

Preserving the Integrity of the Supreme Court of the United States Last week, people in Minnesota and the entire country closely watched the important hearing

Helping the Bipartisan Opioids Bill Become Law Families in rural areas, small towns, downtowns, and Indian Country are hurting from the opioid crisis—last year we saw

Hello, On the last day of 2018, I’m thinking about the past year, and all that’s happened. People tend to use two phrases to describe what

Fighting To Secure Back Pay for Low- and Mid- Level Federal Contract Workers I’m glad that President Trump’s 35-day shutdown—the longest in U.S. history—is over. A

Fighting to Extend Humanitarian Protections for Liberians in Minnesota Starting in the late 1980s, Liberia went through one of the bloodiest civil wars in Africa’s

Securing Humanitarian Protections for Liberians In the face of violence in Liberia, thousands of people came to the United States—many to Minnesota. Thanks to a

Expanding Access to Mental Health Services for Students I’ve learned the lessons of depression the hard way. It’s something I experienced first in my late

Continuing the Fight to Lower Prescription Drug Prices  I’m working to tackle skyrocketing prescription drug prices because we are at a crisis point. Thousands of