(Bismarck, ND) The North Dakota Senate and House Republican caucuses have elected new leadership Monday night at their respective caucus meetings in Bismarck. The Senate republicans elected Senator David Hogue (District 38-Minot) for Senate Majority Leader, Senator Jerry Klein (District 14-Harvey) for Assistant Majority Leader and Senator Kristin Roers (District 27-Fargo)
Grateful for passage of SB 2037
By Staff | May 8, 2021
LeeAllen and Rebecca Leier, Rugby
This year marks the sixth year since Pierce County was targeted for a possible site for a High Level Nuclear Waste repository and the fifth year since a five year, Exploration Borehole and data collection plan was proposed in our county. If implemented, that drilling plan would have been completed in 2021. The purpose of that plan was the collection of data to determine the viability of a permanent High Level Radioactive Waste facility at a proposed site along Hwy 3 in southern Pierce County.
We are grateful to all members of the ND Community Alliance and to Senator Jerry Klein and Representative Jon Nelson for their commitment to years of working within a grass roots movement that resulted in the successful passing of SB 2037, the High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository Bill. This bill and the organized protest of residents from District 14, blocked the implementation of that proposed Explo
District 14 legislators ‘disappointed’ by GOP board shift
By Sue Sitter - | Apr 24, 2021
North Dakota District 14 Representatives Jon Nelson, Robin Weisz and Senator Jerry Klein expressed disappointment with a shift to the right by local Republican Party members at a reorganization meeting held April 10 in Rugby.
“I’ve been serving the Rugby area for 24 years,” Nelson said. “We did redistricting 10 years ago and that’s when we became District 14. That’s when Senator Klein and Representative Weisz were made a part of this district as well,” Nelson explained.
“We have served in the same fashion,” Nelson said. “We have some of the most powerful positions from a rural North Dakota perspective of any district in the state of North Dakota. Representative Weisz is chairman of the Human Services Policy Committee; I’m chairman of the human resource section of the Appropriations Committee, which has the human service budget in it – the Department of Corrections
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This week, we talk with Sen. Jerry Klein (R-Fessenden), the assistant Senate Majority Leader. We ll discuss the session so far, the bonding bill, pending COVID relief money, and redistricting.
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Dave Thompson: This is Legislative Review on Prairie Public. We re on our radio service and we re also on our digital platforms. Today our guest is Senator Jerry Klein of Fessenden. He s a Republican. He s the assistant Senate majority leader, and also chairman of Senate Industry Business Labor. Have I got that correct?
Sen. Jerry Klein: Well, and thank you. Thank you very much for the invitation. I ve always appreciated the opportunities to visit with you and the interviews that we ve had are certainly, you ve always been kind and I very much appreciate it.