Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related to homicide, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses. The Combating Violent and Dangerous Crime Act resolves discrepancies brought on by conflicting court decisions and clarifies congressional intent regarding crimes of violence and their respective penalties. Despite an ongoing crime wave, no Democrats have agreed... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – At a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Harju, Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC), discussed North Dakota’s Class VI well primacy, the effectiveness of current and proposed tax credits to reduce carbon emissions, permitting timelines, and net-negative carbon oil production through... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – To further cut off Russia’s revenue and combat Beijing’s continued support for Vladimir Putin, U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced legislation to impose mandatory sanctions on any entity which registers, provides insurance to, or facilitates registration of any vessel engaged in the shipment of Russian oil, petroleum products, or natural gas to the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC). The sanctions would terminate when the President... 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 the following grants totaling $615,575 from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA): $159,000 to the Stanley Airport Authority; $126,575 to the City of Mohall; $110,000 to the Lisbon Municipal Airport Authority; $110,000 to the Washburn Municipal... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced John Harju, Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC), as a witness at today’s Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing entitled, “Examining the Development of Projects and Implementation of Policies that Support Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Technologies.” In his... CONTINUE READING

U.S.-Canada border ports of entry in North Dakota still operate on reduced pandemic hoursWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus calling for a return to pre-pandemic hours at the northern border ports of entry. North Dakota ports of entry continue to exercise reduced and restricted operating hours first introduced at the beginning of the pandemic over... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded the following grants totaling $1,403,313 to multiple airports within the state of North Dakota for runway installation, construction, rehabilitation, and assessments:$613,076 to Washburn Municipal Airport;$319,537 to Barnes County Municipal Airport Authority; $191,700 to Northwood Municipal Airport Authority;$105,300 to Lakota Airport Authority; $87,300 to Rugby Municipal Airport Authority;... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Fox Business’ Kudlow to discuss his opposition to the semiconductor legislation on the Senate floor this week. He also highlighted the supply chain and national security implications of the Fufeng group’s purchase of farmland near Grand Forks Air Force Base. Excerpts and full video are below.On Opposition to the Semiconductor Legislation:... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement ahead of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee nomination vote on Joseph Goffman to be Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Office of Air and Radiation: “As one of the key architects of the Clean Power Plan in the Obama Administration, Joe Goffman’s bias against North Dakota energy is clear. Despite recent direction from the Supreme Court on the importance of... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) penned an op-ed in The Hill on the importance of creating and passing legislation the way our Founding Fathers intended calling for an end of legislating by gang. In the piece, he remembers former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) for the way he ran the House of Representatives when in leadership and highlighted Leader Armey’s message on the importance of excellency over congressional expedience.“Too many bills these days are crafted without... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the F-M Ambulance Service Inc. received a $200,000 grant for mental health and substance abuse service from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The funds will be used for the F-M Ambulance Service’s FM Ambulance Rural Emergency Medical Services. CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Excerpts and full video are below.  On National Security Concerns:“I am worried about it because China has proven themselves to be both capable and more than willing to steal intellectual property, to intercept the data, and they’re very good at it. Grand Forks is not only an important Intelligence, Surveillance, and... 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), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations Act, a bill to prohibit the federal government from using the flawed social cost of carbon, social cost of methane, social cost of nitrous oxide, or the social cost of any other greenhouse gas metrics in the rulemaking process. “The social cost of carbon is an arbitrary and inconsistent metric. It is... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Senate Banking Republicans sent a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson raising significant concerns with the Equitable Housing Finance Plans which contemplate race-based housing subsidies. The Equitable Housing Finance Plans announced on June 8, 2022 were developed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) at the direction of the FHFA. The GSEs’ recently-released... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and the Senate Banking Committee Republicans criticized Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler for the SEC’s lack of transparency and disregard for a significant congressional oversight request concerning the SEC’s 500-page proposed climate disclosure rule—a sweeping new regulation that will harm consumers, workers, and the entire U.S. economy at a time when energy prices are skyrocketing.On June 15, Banking Republicans sent a... CONTINUE READING

U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $280,000 to the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to implement a program to provide drinking water program assistance to underserved, small and disadvantaged communities in the Tri-County Water District. The funds will be used by North Dakota to carry out projects and activities needed for public water systems to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act, programs to provide household... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on the payment adjustment for the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP):   “The Livestock Indemnity Program exists to assist producers who had above normal livestock fatalities as a result of storms, like the significant blizzards which impacted North Dakota this spring. The storms coincided with calving season and caused significant fatalities among newborn calves.... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona criticizing the Administration’s proposed changes to Title IX and urging an extension of the public comment period by 30 days.In the letter, the senators underscore how the proposed changes to the Title IX rule for adjudicating sexual misconduct cases on college campuses threaten students’ Constitutional right to due process and run counter to federal... CONTINUE READING

***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.***WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined The Record with Greta Van Susteren on Newsmax to discuss the Fufeng group’s purchase of farmland near the Grand Forks Air Force Base. Senator Cramer also highlighted his request to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review the purchase and expressed national security concerns about this investment. Excerpts and... CONTINUE READING