Rep. Angie Craig represents Minnesota’s Second Congressional District. She is fighting for working families - and for a Minnesota where every member of every family gets a fair shot. That means a future with lower health care costs and opportunities for career skills and technical training for 21st century jobs. She’ll work with anybody - and take on the Washington establishment - to get things done for her constituents.
Rep. Craig learned the value of hard work from her mother, a single mom who raised three children while earning her teaching degree. She too worked two jobs to help put herself through college. Years later, she moved to Minnesota and fell in love with the strong communities and quality of life. She and her wife Cheryl Greene have four sons – three who have already graduated from college or tech school and one who graduated from Rosemount High School in 2021 and is currently a college student. They lived in Eagan for nearly a decade and recently moved to Prior Lake. Angie attends church in Apple Valley and is a Rotarian who has served on several local community boards over the years. She is a small business investor, the former head of Global HR and Corporate Relations for a major Minnesota manufacturer, and a former newspaper reporter.
Growing up, I watched my mom work two jobs to help put herself through college, all while raising three kids largely on her own. I know that, right now, there are folks all across Minnesota – just like my mom – who are bending over backwards and working multiple jobs just to put food on the table. In Washington, I’m working every day to help lift those folks up and ensure their hard work pays off. That’s why, for the past several months, my top priority in Washington has been identifying and enacting solutions to bring down prices in our economy and reduce the inflation that is stretching families’ budgets thin.
I was proud to help lead the effort to pass the Lower Food and Fuel Costs Act, a bipartisan package of bills that will lower prices for families at the grocery aisle and the gas pump by giving America’s farmers the support and resources they need to thrive. That legislation included two of my bills – the Year Round Fuel Choice Act, which allows for the year-round sales of cheaper and cleaner biofuel alternatives, and the Strengthening the Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Act, which establishes a task force dedicated to shoring up the agriculture and food supply chains in order to prevent bottlenecks and lower food costs. I’ve also led efforts to enact a temporary gas tax holiday – both at the state and federal level – which could lower prices at the pump by nearly fifty cents per gallon here in Minnesota!
I was proud to champion these critical efforts in Congress – among others – to help get food on shelves faster, lower energy costs, support economic growth in rural America and ensure everyone can afford to put a good meal on the table. Finding ways to lower costs and strengthen our economy will always be at the top of my mind, because I know our job is never over until we can create an economy that works for every Minnesotan.