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Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon meets with OPPD

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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Congressman Bacon stopped by OPPD Saturday morning to discuss what OPPD is doing to keep our grid up and running during Nebraska's severe weather season. Read the full article here.

Omaha Public Power District discusses grid resiliency

| Posted in In the News

Nebraska saw an array of severe weather in 2022. The National Weather Service says that includes 36 tornadoes that touched down in the state and wind gusts that maxed out at more than 100 mph. Read the full article here. Advertisement This year Omaha's Public Power District has more money to keep your lights on through the storms.

Bacon Named Most Effective Republican Lawmaker in 117th Congress

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Bacon Named Most Effective Republican Lawmaker in 117th Congress WASHINGTON – The Center for Effective Lawmaking, a partnership between the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Vanderbilt University, released their Legislative Effectiveness Scores for the 117th Congress, ranking Rep. Don Bacon as the number one Republican lawmaker and the number one…

Bacon Announces Art Competition Deadline Extended

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Bacon Announces Art Competition Deadline Extended WASHINGTON – Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) today announced that the deadline of the Congressional Art Competition has been extended to April 12, 2023.    “The Congressional Art Competition is an excellent opportunity for Nebraska’s high school students to showcase their artwork and be recognized for their abilities,” said…

Center for Effective Lawmaking identifies most successful lawmakers in 117th Congress

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Reps. Gerald Connolly, D-VA, and Don Bacon, R-NE, and Sens. Gary Peters, D-MI, and John Cornyn, R-TX, top their respective lists of the most effective Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the recently completed 117th Congress (2021–23), according to the latest round of legislative effectiveness scores compiled by the Center for Effective Lawmaking released March…

House GOP panel launches probe into Air Force’s ‘unauthorized’ record disclosures

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The House Judiciary Committee is launching an investigation into the various unauthorized record disclosures the Air Force acknowledged it made last year, including known cases of the military branch releasing personnel records of GOP candidates to a Democratic-aligned group. A GOP-led Judiciary subpanel investigating the politicization of the federal government announced Thursday it had…

Bacon Ranked 2nd for Bills Signed Into Law

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Bacon Ranked 2nd for Bills Signed Into Law WASHINGTON – Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE-02) was notified by GovTrack as having the second highest number of bills signed into law out of any Member of Congress in the 117th Congress.  Between 2021 and 2022, eleven of the bills introduced by Bacon were signed into law by the President.     “I came to Congress to…

Bacon Votes to Protect Free Speech

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Bacon Votes to Protect Free Speech   Washington – Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) today voted to protect the free speech of all Americans, from censorship by government officials.   “The recent acknowledgement by Facebook that the FBI pressured them to censure news reports about the Hunter Biden laptop story-which has since been proven to be true-and the bully tactics from the White…