Bemidji Pioneer: Pioneer Editorial: Push for U.S. steel is easy to embrace

When it comes to supporting Northeastern Minnesota mining, and assuring its future, some of our elected leaders are doing what many may have come to believe was the impossible — or, at least, the very difficult. They're agreeing and standing together, despite their party-affiliated political chasms.

Specifically, a Republican and two Democrats sent from Minnesota to Washington, D.C., as well as DFLers sent from the Iron Range to St. Paul, all are finding themselves working toward a common goal in the opening weeks of 2012. They're all taking steps to make sure that American-made steel is the steel that gets used in federal and state transportation, public-works, bonding and other projects that receive public funding, as well as in the production of metal-armor plates for our military.

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© Al Franken - U.S. Senator, Minnesota, 2012. |
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