BISMARCK, North Dakota, Sept. 6 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: Senator John Hoeven recently joined Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in pushing back on China after reports show millions of dollars from Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entities have flowed into America's K-12 classrooms. In a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, the senators outline that for nearly two decades the CCP has sought to compromise the integrity of A  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on Sept. 5, 2023: * * * Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after the Biden administration suspended a Trump-era rule allowing for the transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail. "Our nation needs to be able to get energy to market. That is essential to both our economic and national security," said Hoeven. "Whether it's blocking new natural gas pipelines or holding up our ability  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Sept. 9 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on Sept. 8, 2023: * * * Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). "The Dakota Access Pipeline is vital energy infrastructure for our nation that has been safely operating for six years," said Hoeven. "This pipeline transports nearly half of the light, swee  more

MANDAN, North Dakota, Sept. 9 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: Senator John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today held a roundtable with Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Zach Ducheneaux, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and local agriculture producers to discuss priorities for the next farm bill. Hoeven invited Duche  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: On the floor of the U.S. Senate this week, Senator John Hoeven outlined the impact of high gas prices on U.S. consumers and called on the Biden administration to increase domestic energy production, rather than relying on adversaries with little regard for environmental stewardship. "As Americans hit the road over the recent holiday weekend, many noticed something that has become all to  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.*** WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined Greta Van Susteren on Newsmax to discuss the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Defense tracking more than 100 incidents of Chinese nationals posing as tourists to attempt to breach U.S. military bases and other federal site  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner highlighting the need to pass a strong Farm Bill. Its passage would provide stability for farmers and ranchers while strengthening U.S. national security and geopolitical influence. "The United States is a world leader in agricultural exports, and North Dakota   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.*** WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), introduced Eric Volk, Executive Director of the North Dakota Rural Water Systems Association, during a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) hearing. Panelists provided a variety of perspectives on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) which authorized $55 billion in funding for a r  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement after the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), encouraging all North Dakotans to make their voices heard. "The Dakota Access Pipeline saga has gone on for nearly a decade,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a total of $600,211 to North Dakota State University (NDSU) for an aging research project which will examine a therapeutic strategy to treat Alzheimer's disease. *** Original text here: https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-cramer-hhs-awards-600211-to-north-dakota-state-unive  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a total of $1,213,931 to the following programs and initiatives: $486,761 to the Spirit Lake Tribe for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Healthy Transitions grant project, which seeks to improve and expand access to appropriate services and supports for youth an  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the National Park Service, through the North Dakota Department of Parks and Recreation, awarded a total of $733,487 to the following projects through the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF): $72,000 to the Mandan Park District towards the replacement of an existing playground at the Legion Park in order to improve accessibility and update the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a total of $120,036 to North Dakota State University (NDSU) to support cybersecurity education and training for Criminal Justice professionals. The project will focus on providing scenario-based offensive security and Web-based showcase labs with interactive simulations and case studies in three progre  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - 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

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development awarded a total of $1,530,000 to the following programs and initiatives: $30,000 to Anamoose, ND to conduct a study of the city's sewer system in order to determine deficiencies and develop a plan for future improvements. A loan of $1,500,000 to Northern Plains Electric Coop to assist Sc  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here for photos.*** WASHINGTON--U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Chris Coons (D-DE), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined the Climate Leadership Council in a panel to discuss their bipartisan Providing Reliable, Objective, Verifiable Emissions Intensity and Transparency (PROVE IT) Act. This legislation di  more