DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota, Sept. 1 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven today convened a roundtable to discuss the future of quality health care in the Devils Lake region. Hoeven has been working with community leaders and health care providers to identify and advance community-driven solutions to ensure the best possible care for residents in the area. To this end, the senator highlighted recently-completed health care facilities in Grafto  more

EMERADO, North Dakota, Aug. 31 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2023: Senator John Hoeven and Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Director George Rumford today showcased plans for the more than $500 million Sky Range complex to be developed at Grand Sky. Hoeven, who serves as a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, is working with Rumford to fund and advance the construction of the facilities. This follows the senator's effor  more

FARGO, North Dakota, Aug. 30 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today hosted Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Director George Rumford at the Autonomous Nation Conference to announce that the Sky Range hypersonic missile testing program will expand to Hector Field in Fargo: * Hoeven has been working with Rumford to establish a data processing center to support the Sky Range program. - Currently, the Department of D  more

GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, Aug. 31 -- 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, celebrated the grand opening of the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Hangar at Grand Sky. TRMC provides robust and flexible testing and evaluation capabilities to develop, acquire, field, and sustain reliable and effective weapons systems to meet current and future needs of the warfighter. "I'd rather   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Aug. 31 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, responded to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) and United States Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) release of a new Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule following the Sackett v. EPA U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Specifically, today's final rule declines to define the "relatively permanent"  more

SCRANTON, North Dakota, Aug. 29 -- 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 (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, participated in an Americans for Prosperity press conference and a guided tour through the Keystone XL Pipeline boneyard, which houses pipe segments originally intended for the pipeline. At the time of its closure, the project was under construction a  more

FT. YATES, North Dakota, Aug. 31 -- 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, met with Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Mike Connor and leadership from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to tour and discuss projects in the Cannon Ball District, Long Soldier District, and the Walker Bottom Marina. "One of the most incredible opportunities Standing Rock has i  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined several of his Republican Senate colleagues in a letter calling on U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to investigate Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in America's K-12 educational system. The senators expressed their concerns over a new report which shows millions of dollars of funding from the CCP have flowed into America's K-12 classro  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 -- 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 Transportation, N  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Sept. 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development awarded a total of $584,000 to the City of Elgin to replace and repair the water distribution and wastewater collection systems. USDA approved a loan of $322,000 and a grant of $262,000 through the Water and Waste Disposal Loans and Grants Program, which provides funding for clean and reli  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Implementing Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Perspectives on The Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act, Part II" at 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, 2023, at 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Panel 1 * The Honorable Elizabeth Biser, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality * Kishia L. Powell, General Manager & CEO, Washington Suburban S  more