U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) pressed Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on politicizing research grants.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) pressed Federal Reserve Board Chair Kevin Warsh about why the Fed is putting billionaire AI executives in charge of a panel that's meant to focus on workers.

Food and agriculture are the economic drivers of Minnesota, and farmers are telling us that things are tough. That in fact, it is so much harder to afford to run their businesses than it was just a couple of years ago. Farm Bureau says farm bankruptcies were up nearly 50% last year. Minnesota has the most farm...

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) took to the Senate floor to celebrate passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the largest housing supply bill to move through Congress in nearly 30 years. Smith highlighted how the bipartisan legislation will help build more homes, preserve affordable housing, and lower...

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) took to the Senate floor to remember and honor the life and legacy of Melissa and Mark Hortman nearly one year after their assassination. This past year has been hard without Melissa. But we can all take comfort and inspiration in her legacy as a model of the Minnesotan civic spirit....

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) took to the Senate floor to urge her colleagues to vote against almost 70 billions of dollars in additional funding for ICE and CBP without any basic reforms. Minnesota was flooded with more than 3,000 masked federal agents, terrorizing communities and killing Renee Good and Alex...

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) grills U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the Trump IRS settlement, which shields the Trump family from IRS audits, and questions him about the growing crisis facing American farmers, who are struggling with rising fertilizer and diesel costs amid the ongoing impacts of the...

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) grills the chief of the U.S. Forest Service on reinstating mineral leases in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which would allow a foreign mining conglomerate to build a copper sulfide mine in the headwaters of the BWCA. The mine would almost certainly devastate America's most...

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) took to the Senate Floor to implore her colleagues not to let the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stand. Smith highlighted how a predatory lender used a contract for deed to take advantage of a Minnesotan who wanted a home that fit his growing family. The CFPB...

During the beginnings of the Russia-Ukraine War, agricultural corporations made substantial profit, oftentimes over 100%, thanks to market concentration. At a Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing, Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) presses industry experts on if this same thing will happen to fertilizer companies, who have...