That means: Fostering a business climate that will help create more good jobs.
Foster a business climate that will help create more good jobs.
Occurrences
Evidence
Hoeven says cutting red tape and building a business-friendly environment should boost job growth and economic activity.
The senator says government should remove barriers and create a positive business climate that encourages job creation.
Hoeven led a CRA signed into law that blocks Biden's natural gas tax and removes burdensome energy regulations.
The enacted 2025 law permanently extends tax rates and expands small-business expensing to $2.5 million.
Vote 182 was on the motion to concur in the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 6644, a bill to increase the supply of housing in America. The motion was agreed to, 85 yeas to 5 nays, and Hoeven (R-ND) is listed as Yea.
Hoeven said he joined Senate colleagues in voting to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, describing provisions to expand housing, cut red tape, support construction, repair and rehabilitation, increase credit access, and reform rural housing programs.
Hoeven said the 2026 Farm Bill discussion draft includes priorities he sponsored or advanced: improved producer access to credit, low-interest financing for fertilizer storage and equipment, market opportunities for producers, and rural infrastructure programs.
Hoeven announced a $4.7 million FAA Airport Infrastructure Grant for a 9,600-square-foot aircraft hangar at Williston Basin International Airport and said it would enhance operations, generate revenue, and support North Dakota's growing economy.
Hoeven announced DOE selected the University of North Dakota for award negotiations under a $75 million critical minerals initiative. The project would recover rare earth elements and critical materials from coal feedstocks in Underwood, North Dakota, and Hoeven said he led a delegation effort urging DOE support.
Assessments
Hoeven has materially advanced and supported later-term federal policies consistent with a pro-business climate, including a Hoeven-led enacted CRA blocking a natural gas tax, later tax and expensing provisions, housing supply legislation, infrastructure grants, and sector-specific energy and agriculture initiatives. However, the promise is broad and outcome-oriented, and the evidence does not prove that he fully created a general business climate producing more good jobs across North Dakota. This supports partial credit rather than full delivery.
Hoeven can claim meaningful later-term progress toward the promise because he materially advanced and received enactment of pro-business measures, including a 2025 law expanding tax relief for businesses and Hoeven-led legislation blocking a natural-gas tax and related regulation. Those actions fit the pledge to improve the business climate, but the promise is broad and outcome-based, and the record provided does not show a clearly completed, attributable delivery of a business climate that definitively created more good jobs. Under federal office context, the credit is his because he remained in office and helped advance the later enactments, but the best judgment is partial rather than full delivery.