Press Releases

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

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 (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development awarded a total of $5,000,000 to North Dakota tribes in water and waste grants. $3,000,000 to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to install a water main from Kenel, South Dakota to the North Dakota border to benefit the residents of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. There is no rural water service to this area of the reservation and many wells do not provide adequate or reliable water for... 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 a total of $1,865,085 in funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.“Today’s funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is another win for our state. These dollars will specifically aid projects to improve North Dakota’s... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded a total of $5,547,013 to multiple airports within the state of North Dakota for runway installation, construction, rehabilitation, and assessments.  Grant Recipient Award Amount Grand Forks International $1,741,022 Glen Ullin Municipal Airport Authority $1,681,000 Lisbon Municipal Airport Authority $941,738 Edgeley Municipal Airport Authority $418,353 Jamestown Airport... 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, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on West Virginia v. EPA, in which North Dakota is a party, firmly establishing the State’s role as an equal partner to the federal government in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants:“Today’s ruling reaffirms Congress never... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, penned an essay for the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy on restoring states’ rights and adhering to cooperative federalism in environmental policy. In the essay, Senator Cramer examines the Clean Air Act, specifically Section 111(d), the Clean Water Act, Waters of the United States, and the Water Supply Rule.“In my ten years as a state regulator, six years as a U.S. House member,... CONTINUE READING