Nebraska Rep. Bacon to host 2nd town hall in over-the-phone format Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon is hosting his second townhall in an over-the-phone format Monday evening. A release from Rep. Bacon’s office says they will be holding a “tele-townhall” due to the large number of people who wish to… Read more »

Rep. Don Bacon introduces bill increasing penalties for attacking public safety officers Congressman Don Bacon introduced legislation Thursday that would increase criminal penalties for anyone convicted of killing or conspiring to kill public safety officers. The so-called "Back the Blue Act" would also create mandatory minimums for assaulting a federally funded state or local law… Read more »

Bacon Sends Letter to Officials Expressing Concern Over Delay of Federal Education Funding for 2025-2026 Washington – Rep. Don Bacon recently sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Russell Vought, urging the release of federal funds already appropriated by Congress and issued by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) for federal formula… Read more »

Bacon Announces Priorities Included in Defense Appropriations Bill Secures over $2.3B for Nebraska Defense Research and Air Force Investments  Washington – Today, Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) announced the successful inclusion of over $2.3 billion in critical Nebraska priorities in the Defense Appropriations bill passed by the House of… Read more »

Bacon and Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect U.S. Farmland from Foreign Ownership Bipartisan Legislation Closes Critical Gaps in Foreign Agricultural Land Ownership Tracking Washington – Recently, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE-02) along with Reps. Mark Alford (R-MO-04), Michael Bost (R-IL-12), Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28), Brad Finstad… Read more »

Bacon Lauds Progress on FY26 Defense Policy Bill Washington – Late Tuesday evening, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE-02) Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation Subcommittee (CITI), voted in favor of advancing H.R. 3838, the Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National… Read more »

Bacon and Salazar Introduce Historic Bipartisan DIGNITY Act to Finally Fix America's Broken Immigration System WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02) and Congresswoman Elvira Salazar (FL-27) introduced a new and improved version of the DIGNITY Act – the DIGNITY Act of 2025: a bold, historic, and commonsense immigration reform bill.  They… Read more »

Dear friend, There has been a lot of misinformation about Medicaid out there and I want to provide updated estimates of the impacts of adjustments to Medicaid policies in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), from the Congressional BudgetOffice(CBO). Liberals are trying to scare the American people by using misleading… Read more »

Bacon joins probe into Musk and Grok AI over allegations of antisemitism, ‘deeply alarming messages’ Nebraska U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., is among three members of Congress seeking answers from Elon Musk and his xAI Corp. over ‘deeply alarming messages’ from the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot: Grok. Bacon and Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., wrote a… Read more »

In Case You Missed It: We're Nebraska's U.S. Congressmen. Here's why we supported the Big Beautiful Bill By U.S. Congressmen Mike Flood, Don Bacon, andAdrianSmith Omaha World-Herald July 12, 2025 Last week, before we voted to send HR 1 (the One Big Beautiful Bill… Read more »