Press Releases

***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

The Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act eliminates arbitrary per-country limits on employment-based visas.WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2022, a bill which will benefit the U.S. economy by allowing American employers to focus on hiring immigrants based on their merit, not their birthplace. The EAGLE Act phases out the 7% per-country limit on... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) urged the Department of Energy (DOE) to implement the Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hub Program established under the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act the way Congress intended. Currently, DOE is imposing onerous, one-size-fits-all requirements on grant applicants, limiting the program's ability to work.“Congress designed this program to assist in deploying and bringing down the long-term cost of... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging Acting National Institute of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak to expand funding opportunities for research in osteopathic medicine. Osteopathic physicians have expertise in the musculoskeletal system and receive additional training in osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), a hands-on technique and non-pharmacological solution to pain management.... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) awarded $500,000 to the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) for the repair and reconstruction of federal-aid highways and roads on federal lands which suffered serious damage as a result of April 2022 severe storms and flooding in eastern North Dakota.North Dakota’s disaster declaration for severe spring storms was approved last week.... 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 & Friends to discuss his opposition to the Fufeng group’s purchase of farmland near Grand Forks Air Force Base. Senator Cramer highlighted national security concerns and his recent request for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review the purchase. Excerpts and full video are below.On National Security... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) introduced a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), with the other 48 of their Senate Republican colleagues to nullify the Biden Administration’s new regulation, “National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations Revisions.” The regulation reverses common sense permitting reforms implemented by the... CONTINUE READING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, penned an essay in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy on restoring states’ rights and federalism in environmental policy.“Tension between the States and the federal government has existed since the beginning. However, recent Democrat political leadership has trended toward federal dominion well outside the bounds of the law. Nowhere is this more evident than environmental legal... CONTINUE READING

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