Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on the beginning of Carbon Capture Sequestration (CCS) at Red Trail Energy: “The future of responsible energy development and innovation runs through North Dakota. The United States’ first permitted carbon capture sequestration project is up and running in Richardton. For the past month, Red Trail Energy has removed carbon dioxide from an existing... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) publicly filed weekly grain backlog status updates as required by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB). A summary of the reporting data specific to North Dakota from the last 10 weeks is below. Following STB’s hearing on “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” in April, BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific submitted service recovery plans,... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), John Thune (R-SD), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) sent a letter requesting that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack address implementation issues with the Emergency Relief Program (ERP), which helps producers offset the impacts of natural disasters that occurred in 2020 and 2021. “USDA’s work in implementing the ERP to help farmers and ranchers who suffered disaster-related losses in 2020 and 2021 has been meaningful to... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tae Johnson expressing concern over the dangers of President Biden’s continued implementation of catch and release policies in response to the border crisis. In particular, the concerns focus on how the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program is failing to accomplish its stated goals.“Under the Alternatives to Detention... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – National security concerns are growing over Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group’s purchase of roughly 370 acres of land near the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review the purchase.“This property is... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded the following two grants totaling $2,005,179: $435,000 to North Dakota State University for pharmacology, physiology, and biological chemistry research. $1,570,179 to the North Dakota Department of Health for epidemiology and laboratory capacity for prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases. CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Hoeven (R-ND) and Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) today issued the following statement after President Biden issued a major presidential disaster declaration for severe spring storms in North Dakota. In a letter to the president last month, the delegation urged for the declaration’s approval, stressing that repeated storms resulted in significant damages, power outages, and flooding, which impacted the state through April and... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $650,000 to North Dakota State University (NDSU) for animal nutrition, growth, and lactation research. NDSU’s project will help develop strategies to improve feed efficiency and disease resilience in calves CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Fox Business’s Kudlow to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling on West Virginia v. EPA and the pattern of federal agency overreach. He also highlighted how the conservative Supreme Court majority is keeping federal agencies in check and adhering to the Constitution. Excerpts and full video are below.On West Virginia v. EPA... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and their Republican colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin requesting justification for a recent assertion from a top Department of Defense (DoD) official who said the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization would affect the “readiness of the Force.”In a memorandum to the Force dated June 28, 2022, Under Secretary of Defense... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) introduced bicameral legislation, the Unborn Child Support Act, to give mothers the ability to receive child support payments while they are pregnant.“Caring for the well-being of our children begins long before a baby is born. It begins at the first moment of life – conception – and fathers have obligations, financial and otherwise, during pregnancy. Mothers should be able to access child support payments as... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and U.S. Representative Lance Gooden (R-TX-05) in sending a bicameral letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland stating their opposition to the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) return to the Obama-era practice of directing legal settlements to partisan, non-victim organizations. The letter is written in response to the public comment period for the DOJ’s... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) publicly filed weekly grain backlog status updates as required by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB). A summary of the reporting data specific to North Dakota from the last 10 weeks is below.Following STB’s hearing on “Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service” in April, BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific submitted service recovery plans,... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a $2,088,884 grant to North Dakota State University’s Center for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies in Pancreatic Cancer.The funding comes from the Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research Program. CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, announced today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded Mott Municipal Airport $380,000 in funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).“Today’s funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is another win for North Dakota. Small airports are important in our rural... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, issued the following statement in response to the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) proposed rule to impose greenhouse gas emissions performance measures on state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations without any new authority from Congress:“The Biden Administration’s Federal Highway Administration is veering off course once again. First, they... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Braun (R-IN), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to the Senate Conference Committee members appointed to reach an agreement related to H.R. 4521, the United States Innovation and Competition Act, outlining their concerns with provisions in the bill that would strip away tools for competing with China, and proposing changes to incentivize domestic investment.“We write to reiterate that the economic... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today members of his staff will hold mobile office hours in Grafton and Lakota on Thursday, July 14.“Since it’s not always possible for people to travel to my in-state offices, these mobile office opportunities help bring the services we offer closer to the constituents who need them,” said Senator Cramer. “Having members of my staff in Grafton and Lakota will give North... CONTINUE READING

BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on yesterday’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) onshore lease sale and the legal challenge from radical environmentalist interest groups: “Yesterday’s better late than never onshore lease sale demonstrates not only the attractiveness of the Bakken, but the dire need for domestic oil and gas production amidst soaring inflation, skyrocketing gas prices, and a... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) released the following Independence Day video message:“Hello and happy Independence Day to you all! “As we prepare for a day filled with celebration with family and friends, let’s first reflect on the day 246 years ago that revolutionized democracy and freedom sending tidal waves throughout the world. America was born and a representative republic was... CONTINUE READING