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.
Social Security and Medicare are a promise that we’ve made to America’s seniors – if you work hard and play by the rules, affordable health care and the dignity of a secure retirement will be within your reach. In order to keep this promise, we need to keep Medicare and Social Security fully funded and combat any attempts to privatize or defund them. We should look for commonsense, bipartisan ways to strengthen Medicare and Social Security while shoring workers’ pensions – and stop putting the retirement of millions of Americans in danger.
Throughout my time in Congress, I have been proud to support efforts to strengthen these critical programs. I cosponsored the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, which would establish a loan program to help shore up seniors’ access to pensions. I was also proud to include pension stabilization for more than 1 million Americans in the American Rescue Plan.
Our seniors work their entire lives to be able to retire with dignity and without fear of poverty, and it is critical that Congress ensure that our seniors are supported.