Press Releases

BISMARCK — U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Alex Miller on Newsy to discuss the oil production cut deal and Saudi Arabia. Click Here to Watch CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK — U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined BNN Bloomberg today to discuss the latest on oil. Click Here to Watch CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded two grants totaling $2,500,000 to the North Dakota State Department of Human Services and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for COVID-19 impact response and recovery. The North Dakota State Department of Human Services received a Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Grant of $2,000,000 through the HHS Center for Flex Grants. This program will provide crisis... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Washington Watch with Tony Perkins yesterday to discuss COVID-19 response efforts. Click Here to Listen CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement after speaking with President Donald J. Trump today: “I called President Trump after our Task Force meeting to personally thank him for his work in ending the harmful oil dispute between Saudi Arabia and Russia and to encourage him to keep holding them accountable. These countries would have continued their de-facto war on American oil producers if not for the President’s successful intervention. “The... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on the Paycheck Protection Program running out of funds today: “The blame lies at the feet of Democrats who would rather exploit a crisis to advance their extreme partisan agenda than fund a wildly popular program they helped create. I urge them to stop their reckless behavior and support a clean appropriation for the Paycheck Protection Program.” The Paycheck Protection Program was created as part of the Phase... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded $509,615 to Job Service North Dakota to provide North Dakotans with Disaster Recovery Dislocation Worker Grants (DWGs) for COVID-19 impact relief. The funds are apportioned as authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, legislation crafted in the Senate which Senator Cramer helped pass. These funds come as a part of DOL’s first installment of DWGs to... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), announcing a temporary final rule to change certain H-2A requirements amid COVID-19: “This is good work by DHS Acting Secretary Wolf and USDA Secretary Perdue. Today’s temporary rule helps agricultural producers avoid disruptions in employment and protects the nation’s food supply chain without weakening... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK — U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on Fox News this afternoon to discuss the Paycheck Protection Program. Click Here to Watch CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK — U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business this morning to discuss the oil market and federal response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic. Click Here to Watch CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a COVID-19 emergency grant of $58,008 to Cass County. These funds come through the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) Program as authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CESF Program will provide a total of $850 million to states, local governments, and tribes to prevent, prepare for, and respond to... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Education (ED) awarded the state of North Dakota $5,932,707 in State Flexibility Funding for Coronavirus (COVID—19) response efforts apportioned through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.  This ED award is made available through Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund authorized in the CARES Act. It is part of a $3 billion nation-wide emergency education relief funding package... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded funds to North Dakota airports as a part of their $10 billion nation-wide allocation to commercial and general aviation airports through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Airport Grant Program.   This funding will support continuing operations and replace lost revenue resulting from the sharp decline in passenger traffic and other airport business due to... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK — U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Baker Machado on Cheddar today to discuss oil and the COVID-19 pandemic. Click Here to Watch   CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rick Scott (R-FL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Steve Daines (R-MT), Todd Young (R-IN) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) sent a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting information ahead of a Congressional hearing to investigate the WHO’s role in helping Communist China cover up information regarding the threat of the Coronavirus. In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for FOX News... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded$435,000 to North Dakota State University (NDSU) to perform heart and vascular disease research.   This grant is an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) and was approved through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute under HHS. NDSU will use the funds to finance the project entitled “Regulation of Arterial Function by Apelin/APJ... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $430,311 to the North Dakota Hospital Foundation for their Hospital Preparedness Program.   This grant was approved through the HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Response and will be used to finance the Hospital Association’s COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities. The North Dakota Hospital Association works to create an understanding of health care needs in North... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) issued the following statements on the United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia striking a deal to cut oil production today: “Thank you to President Trump and Secretary Brouillette for your strong and tireless advocacy on behalf of American oil producers, which sealed this unprecedented deal. Without it, the United States could have lost its energy dominance along with the security and thousands of good-paying jobs it... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK — U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) released the following video ahead of Easter Sunday. Click Here to Watch CONTINUE READING

***Click here for video. Click here for audio.*** WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, led a nearly two-hour call today between a group of senators and Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, and Deputy Defense Minister, Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. “While we appreciate them taking the first step toward fixing the problem they helped create, the Saudis spent over a month... CONTINUE READING