BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 28 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: Senator John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today congratulated Farm Rescue on the completion of its 1,000th farm assistance case. Farm Rescue provides free planting, haying, harvesting, hauling and livestock feeding assistance for families challenged by major illness, injury o  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today held a meeting with former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson and North Dakota State University (NDSU) leadership to discuss efforts to: * Ensure strong support for agriculture research in North Dakota. - As ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, Hoeven advanced more than $50 million in agriculture research funding  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Senator John Hoeven recently helped reintroduce legislation sponsored by Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) to push back on the Biden administration's harmful regulatory agenda and prevent the president from declaring a national emergency on the premise of climate change. Specifically, the bill would prohibit the president from using the three primary statutory authorities available   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 29 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on June 28, 2023: * * * Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after Minnkota Power Cooperative announced new affiliates to advance Project Tundra, their carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project, into its final stages of development. Minnkota announced it is partnering with TC Energy, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kiewit to complete the project. "Minnkota's pro  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, July 1 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a decision overturning President Biden's student loan debt cancellation plan. Hoeven has been working to oppose the Biden administration's plan, including joining 42 of his Senate colleagues in an amicus brief to SCOTUS challenging the plan. Earlier this month, Hoeven also  more

DUNN CENTER, North Dakota, June 30 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 29, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today met with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) representatives, Dunn County Commissioners, state legislators and ranchers to discuss the seepage at Lake Ilo dam and its effects on area stakeholders. The FWS is keeping Ilo Reservoir at a low level to prevent increased seepage into a nearby coal seam, which threatens the integrity of the spillway.   more

KILLDEER, North Dakota, June 30 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 29, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today joined Dunn County leaders at a ribbon cutting for the new Dunn County Roadway Building, a 23,500-square-foot building with state-of-the-art technology including a ten-ton moveable crane to lift heavy equipment anywhere in the shop, new welding bay with exhaust system, and a technology center with smart rooms for training and continuing education. Th  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 28 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, announced the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is awarding $130,162,815 to the state of North Dakota. These funds will be distributed from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program which was established thr  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded $9,850,000 to the North Dakota Department of Transportation for the North Dakota Tribal Trail Connections Project. These funds will be distributed through Rebuilding American Infrast  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded $18,572,895 to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. This funding was made available through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant program and   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 30 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a combined total of $25,834,000 through the Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP) which provides grant funding to intermediary lenders who finance or plan to finance the start-up, development, operations, and processing of meat and poultry. This funding is distributed as fol  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, July 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, announced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $617,648 to the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (NDDEQ) to support the application or implementation of an EPA-approved state program for the control of coal combustion residuals (CCR). The CCR program will support d  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 29 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, announced Minnkota Power Cooperative, TC Energy, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Kiewit, and its affiliates have moved Project Tundra into its final stage of development. As one of the world's largest carbon capture projects, Project Tundra is designed to capture up to 4   more

GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, June 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), attended a Change of Command ceremony at Grand Forks Air Force Base as Colonel Timothy Curry formally relinquished command of the 319th Reconaissance Wing to Colonel Timothy Monroe. "A Change of Command ceremony is one of the richest traditions in the military, and I am always inspired when I attend t  more

FARGO, North Dakota, June 27 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) delivered remarks at the Chiefs of Police Association of North Dakota's Summer Conference. He highlighted the importance of training officers, keeping the peace, and providing more funding for local law enforcement, troopers, and school resource officers. "In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' Seeing the day-to-  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, July 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on the Supreme Court's decision in the student loan forgiveness case Biden v. Nebraska. "The pandemic is over and so is the student loan forgiveness saga. Today's ruling rightly struck down the Biden administration's illegal forgiveness scheme and prevented American taxpayers from paying for loans they never  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 30 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined 30 of his colleagues in releasing a joint statement marking the 26th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover and the 3rd anniversary of the Hong Kong "National Security Law." "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its acolytes in the Hong Kong government continue their campaign of repression in  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, June 27 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, joined his colleagues in reintroducing the Real Emergencies Act. This legislation would clarify the president does not have the authority to declare a national emergency on the premise of climate change. "The Biden administration has frequently used executive overreach to by  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, July 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: 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 April 2022 hearing on "Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service," BNSF Railway, CSX Transp  more