WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today met with U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Deputy Chief Chris French, McKenzie County officials, state legislators and local business leaders to discuss efforts to enhance the Maah Daah Hey Trail. Hoeven stressed the 144-mile trail's importance to local tourism, as it is the longest continuous single-track mountain biking trail in the nation, hosts major race events th  more

WATFORD CITY, North Dakota, Aug. 23 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today held a roundtable with U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Deputy Chief Chris French and local livestock and energy producers to discuss priorities for the upcoming farm bill and efforts to ensure USFS is a good neighbor. To this end, Hoeven, who serves as ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and as a senior member of the Sena  more

CENTER, North Dakota, Aug. 24 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today met with BNI Coal General Manager Mike Heger and Minnkota Power Cooperative CEO Mac McLennan to discuss and tour the operations of BNI's new coal lease area at the Center Mine. The operations are able to move forward due to Hoeven's efforts to secure needed regulatory approval, which prevented $35 million in costs from being imposed on homeowners and b  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on Aug. 21, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on Attorney General Merrick Garland's visit to Fargo, ND today to meet with local, state, and federal law enforcement officials. "I extend a warm North Dakota welcome to Attorney General Merrick Garland. "North Dakota is a special place committed to the rule of law and safe communities. "I always apprecia  more

FARGO, North Dakota, Aug. 24 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Banking Committee, participated in a tour of the U.S. Bank call center in Fargo and answered questions at an employee town hall. The Fargo operations center is home to 400 on-site and hybrid employees in the greater Fargo-Moorhead area. Established in 1996, the U.S. Bank Fargo operations center provides credit card customer service to smal  more

MINOT, North Dakota, Aug. 24 -- 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, visited two orphaned well sites outside of Minot with the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources. The two sites are in the process of being plugged and reclaimed by the state with funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which included Senator Cramer and S  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development, joined his Senate Republican colleagues in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen demanding answers regarding the approximately $6 billion it released to Iran in exchange for American prisoners. "When the Obama administration released $400 million  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2023: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined Republican members of the committee in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to request termination of all border wall construction material sales. The letter follows reports the Department of Defense aimed to quickly dispose of the parts before provisions of the FINISH IT Act could be im  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Aug. 18 -- 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 Trans  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Aug. 26 -- 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 Trans  more