Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) on a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland release guidance memos produced by the DOJ on reinstating funding for sanctuary cities and jurisdictions. “Today, at least 11 states have adopted sanctuary policies and hundreds of local governments have established themselves as sanctuary cities. This leaves their citizens at risk to the dangerous, violent criminal... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee member, joined Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) in reintroducing the Water Quality Certification Improvement Act, legislation to amend section 401 of the Clean Water Act by making key clarifications about the appropriate scope of review for a water quality certification and placing procedural guardrails and requirements on states as they process requests for certification to prevent future... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee member, joined a bipartisan letter led by EPW Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) to White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Brenda Mallory regarding the status of CEQ’s implementation of the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act, legislation Senator Cramer helped introduce and pass which would support carbon utilization and direct... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee member, and Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced the Choice in Affordable Housing Act, a bipartisan bill to improve the federal government’s largest rental assistance program. The legislation would create the Herschel Lashkowitz Housing Partnership Fund, named after former state senator and Fargo Mayor Herschel Lashkowitz, a longtime advocate for affordable housing.“Over the... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined a letter led by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra urging the Biden Administration to withdraw its proposed rule on the Title X family planning program, which would eliminate the Trump Administration’s 2019 Protect Life Rule and direct tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. “Abortion is not family planning; it is family... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation Infrastructure, with EPW Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE), Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Subcommittee Chairman Ben Cardin (D-MD), unveiled the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act, a bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill with a historically high baseline funding level of $303.5... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Armed Services Committee member, issued the following statement on the Space Development Agency (SDA) awarding General Atomics a $6 million grant to conduct a space-to-air optical communication experiment:“Space touches everything. It is important to everything we do, and it is the next warfighting domain, and our adversaries are working overtime to threaten America’s space... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download  audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on Judge James Boasberg, District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruling against an injunction to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers performs an Environmental Impact Statement on the pipeline:“Once again, reason prevails over political pressure in our effort to keep the Dakota Access Pipeline up and running. The... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – At a Senate Armed Services (SASC) hearing, U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) questioned David F. Helvey, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, and Brigadier General Matthew Trollinger, U.S. Marine Corps Deputy Director of Politico-Military Affairs Middle East and Joint Staff of Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, on the military’s plans for supporting the government in Afghanistan... CONTINUE READING

***Click here for media resources.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Banking Committee member, met with Visa CEO and Chairman Alfred Kelly, Jr. recently to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses, as well as the importance of high speed rural broadband for education and North Dakota communities. “Efforts to manage COVID-19 last year greatly harmed our small businesses. Mr. Kelly and I discussed helping our rural America work out of the hole created by the... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Armed Services Committee Member, joined Stuart Varney on Fox Business this morning to discuss the Protecting Our Well-being by Expanding Russian Sanctions (POWERS) Act, legislation he introduced yesterday to expand sanctions against Russia and reinstate sanctions the Biden Administration is waiving on Russian people and entities involved in the construction of the... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) on a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai asking them to reverse the Biden Administration’s decision to give U.S. COVID intellectual property to China.“It is not surprising that China, India, and South Africa want to steal our intellectual property and medical technology,” the senators wrote. “Simply put, the Biden... CONTINUE READING

Senator Cramer Leads Bill to Undo Biden Administration’s Nord Stream 2 Actions, Expand Sanctions on RussiaWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Armed Services Committee Member, announced today he is leading the Protecting Our Well-being by Expanding Russian Sanctions (POWERS) Act, legislation to build on recently-passed bipartisan sanctions against Russia and reinstate sanctions the Biden Administration is waiving on Russian people and entities involved in the construction of... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) criticizing its decision to revoke a Trump-era order that prohibited electric utilities which supply critical defense facilities from importing certain power system equipment from China.“DOE has a significant responsibility to protect the U.S. electric grid and help ensure that critical equipment supplied from foreign adversaries does not pose a risk to the... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Budget Committee member, joined Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Angus King (I-ME) in reintroducing the Preventive Health Savings Act, a bipartisan bill to direct the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to more accurately reflect the cost-savings of preventive health care.“Preventive health care measures allow Americans to live longer, healthier lives while dramatically lowering the costs that ultimately get passed... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) on a letter to President Biden urging him to reverse his Executive Order that revoked federal agency requirements to post guidance documents in a searchable database. This follows up on a letter also sent by Senators Cramer, Johnson, and others to President Biden in February questioning the president’s removals of these transparency measures for agency guidance documents.“Since... CONTINUE READING

***Click here for media resources.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Banking Committee member, spoke by phone with Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser this week to discuss the fossil fuel industry’s relationship with the financial sector.“Mrs. Fraser accepted my invitation to visit North Dakota and meet with our economic leaders, a trip I would be happy to host,” said Senator Cramer. “I am grateful she took the time to discuss American energy and for her... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – At a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) discussed challenges facing the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a program created by Congress through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, and the importance of ensuring changes to the program protect the ability for homeowners to transfer coverage between private companies and the NFIP without... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee member, and Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced the 30 x 30 Termination Act today, legislation to block the Biden Administration’s directive to conserve at least 30% of the nation’s private lands and waters by 2030. Senator Cramer denounced the Administration’s actions when they were first announced.“President Biden’s Administration is paving the way for another attempted land grab... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Armed Services Committee member, announced today he is cosponsoring the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act, a bipartisan bill to modernize the way the military handles accusations of serious and sensitive crimes. The recent support of Senator Cramer and others has helped put this bill over the Senate’s 60 vote threshold.“The status quo is not working when it comes to the military’s handling of accusations... CONTINUE READING