News
May 7, 2021
Fort Report
The standard script with China is to talk in banal pleasantries and econometric process-speak. I think we’re past that. Please watch.
Apr 30, 2021
Fort Report
The manager at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City recently gave me a book. It’s called American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation. It’s a thoroughly researched history of American progress, power, development, and sustainability written through the lens of the...
Apr 28, 2021
Press Release
(Washington, DC)—Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01) made the following statement today in advance of President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress.“Our earlier bipartisan emergency measures to turn the corner on this harsh pandemic should not become an excuse...
Apr 26, 2021
In The News
Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry says work needs to be done in several areas of agriculture that present issues for America’s farm and ranch families beginning with rural broadband.
Apr 23, 2021
Fort Report
This week, while I was poring over, line by line, tens of billions of dollars in proposed defense spending, Russian President Vladimir Putin, as if on cue, amassed and then suddenly un-amassed a massive contingent of Russian forces at the Ukraine border. These maneuvers had...
Apr 22, 2021
In The News
In advance of Earth Day, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled on Monday the Energy Innovation Agenda, a three-day virtual forum highlighting a flurry of House Republican-sponsored bills geared toward clean energy infrastructure, conservation, and other market-oriented...
Apr 20, 2021
Press Release
(Washington, DC)—Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-01) made the following statement today after a Minneapolis jury found police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges of manslaughter and murder.
“The traumatic death of George Floyd, and the impact on our nation’s police,...