WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.*** BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the Biden administration's war on energy and the letter he recently cosigned calling on President Biden to convene the G7 nations and take coordinated action to further isolate Iran with severe sanctions and action. In the letter, the senators also request  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- 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 Service Committee (SASC), joined Elizabeth MacDonald on Fox Business' The Evening Edit to discuss Hamas terrorists blocking civilians from escaping, the Robert Malley investigation, and inflicting more sanctions on Iran - the lead sponsor of terrorism. On Palestinians Es  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- Sen. Tina Flint Smith, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tina Smith (D-MN) announced that they secured federal funding for upgrades to Minnesota Power's High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) terminal stations through the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) program. This project will modernize the aging terminal stations of a 465-mile HVDC transmission line that runs from Center,  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tina Smith (D-MN) announced that they secured federal funding for upgrades to Minnesota Power's High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) terminal stations through the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) program. This project will modernize the aging terminal stations of a 465-mile HVDC transmission line that runs fro  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- Sen. Tina Flint Smith, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tina Smith (D-MN) announced that the Heartland Hydrogen Hub, made up of public and private partners in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, will receive significant federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to produce low carbon hydrogen for power generation, natural gas distribution systems, and agricultural use. "This investment will be an impor  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- 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) questioned Susan Bodine, Partner at Earth and Water Law, on the implications of the Sackett v. the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision on Waters of the United States (WOTUS) determinations under the Clean Water Act (CWA), which directly impacts landowners in North Dakota and across the Uni  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here for photos.*** JAMESTOWN--U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), issued the following statement after sending off the North Dakota National Guard's (NDNG) 817th Engineer Company which will be deployed to the southern border for one year. This deployment was in response to Texas Governor Greg Abbot asking states to send available resources t  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.*** WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the need for a bipartisan bill reimposing sanctions on Iran. Excerpts and video below. On Lack of Bipartisan Support on Sanctioning Iran: "Senator Hagerty could speak to this as well as anybody he went to the floor last night   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- 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), during a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) hearing, questioned the Chair and Vice Chair of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, Madelyn Creedon and former Senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl. The Commission is responsible for conducting a review of the United S  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement after the Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution, which reaffirms the United States' support of Israel and its right to self-defense. Additionally, the resolution condemns Hamas' war on Israel and Iran's support of global terrorism. Senator Cramer is a cosponsor of the resolution. The resolution states the U.S. will make every e  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here for photos.*** WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), along with the three other co-chairs of the American-Canadian Economy and Security Caucus (ACES), U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), U.S. Representatives Mark Amodei (R-NV-02), and Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-07), attended an event in celebration of the relationship between Canada and the United States. Additionally, the Embassy of Cana  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined his Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden, requesting an immediate update on the administration's plans to implement the landmark Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) agreement. The senators also stressed the need to receive the Submarine Industrial Base (SIB-25) report from the administratio  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- 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), joined his colleagues on U.S. Senator Marco Rubio's (R-FL) resolution calling on President Biden to enforce existing law and revoke the visas of foreign nationals who endorse or espouse activity in support of Hamas or other Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). "President Biden must fully follow throug  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined his colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden requesting more border wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border and to resubmit the administration's emergency supplemental request to include border wall funding. The letter follows the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) announcement, w  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- 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), joined his colleagues in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an update on the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) investigation into the Iranian regime's nuclear program. The Obama administration's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action provided sanctions relief in exchange   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, joined Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-SC) in introducing the Revoke Iranian Funding Act. This legislation will rescind the general licenses which enabled the release of the $6 billion to Iran and prevent the regime from accessing and using the funds held in Qatar to finance terrorist attack  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- 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), joined his colleagues in reintroducing the Preempting Misguided Appeasement and Financing of Destabilizing Regimes Act of 2023, which will prohibit the importation of crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, and liquified natural gas from Iran and Venezuela. "The idea of importing oil from our adversar  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- 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, joined his colleagues in introducing the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act, which would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) de facto mandate of electric vehicles. The proposed rules, announced by the EPA in April 2023, would set   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement after voting for S.J. Res. 32, a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) final rule implementing Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Senator Cramer is a cosponsor of the resolution. Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act allows covered   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here for audio.*** BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, announced the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $925 million to the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota for their Heartland H2 Hub in partnership with Marathon Petroleum, TC Energy, and Xcel Energy. This funding was awarded as part o  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- 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, Oct. 20 -- 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, Oct. 13 -- 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 Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) awarded $500,000 to the Turtle Mountain Community College. In collaboration with the Sandia National Laboratories, this grant will enhance education curriculum for building construction and electrical trades to recruit and train a skilled workforce of American India  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2023: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, today joined Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, in introducing the Revoke Iranian Funding Act to: * Rescind the general licenses that allow Iran access to $6 billion in assets housed in Qatar. * Prevent the Iranian regime from accessing a  more

JAMESTOWN, North Dakota, Oct. 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today paid tribute to the approximately 125 members of the North Dakota National Guard's (NDNG) 817th Engineer Company who are deploying for a year-long mission to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the southern border. The unit's deployment follows the deployments of the NDNG's 957 Engineer Company and 1-112 Aviation Battalion to the southe  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: During remarks delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate today, Senator John Hoeven outlined the United States' continued commitment to supporting its ally Israel. At the same time, Hoeven called on the Biden administration to end negotiations with Iran and reinstate a policy of maximum pressure on the regime, including imposing sanctions without waivers. The senator also reinforced these points at a pre  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Oct. 20, 2023: Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today joined Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) in introducing the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act to prevent the Biden Administration's implementation of a proposed rule and other regulations that seek to limit consumer vehicle choice. The legislation comes in   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven this week requested that the National Park Service (NPS) extend the deadline for public comment on the agency's proposed options for managing the wild horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. In a letter to NPS Director Charles Sams, the senator called on the agency to extend the public comment period, originally scheduled to close on October 25, for an additional 30 days. Followin  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today voted to strike down the Biden administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Small Business Lending Data Collection Rule. The CFPB rule imposes burdensome data collection requirements on covered financial institutions, which are particularly costly for smaller lenders, while making the data public, potentially risking the privacy of small business  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Oct. 18, 2023: Senator John Hoeven today pressed President Joe Biden to do everything in his power to free American hostages taken by Hamas from Israel, and to support Israel's efforts to dismantle the threat of Hamas. Hoeven was part of a bipartisan, bicameral group of 49 lawmakers, led by Senators Joni Ernst and Cory Booker, who urged the President to put his full attention on freeing Americans being  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on Oct. 20, 2023: * * * Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved WBI Energy's expansion project to bring natural gas service to Wahpeton. The 60.5-mile pipeline would deliver 20.6 million cubic feet of natural gas to the region, supporting existing businesses like ag  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on Oct. 19, 2023: * * * Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after voting to approve a Senate resolution expressing solidarity with Israel in the wake of the terrorist attacks by Hamas. "This resolution makes it clear that the United States Senate stands firmly with our friend and ally Israel," said Hoeven, "At the same time, we unequivocally condemn Hamas' terrorist attacks as well as   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Angus King (I-Maine), members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), are fighting to keep many VA facilities open nationwide, by asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to find workable solutions for staffing shortages at long-term care facilities across the country. VA and long-term care facilities serve retired veterans   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Oct. 19, 2023: U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) this week joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in introducing a resolution calling on President Joe Biden to enforce existing law and revoke the visas of foreign nationals who endorse or espouse activity in support of Hamas or other Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). The resolution comes in response to foreign nationals within the U.S. supporting Ham  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in reintroducing the Preempting Misguided Appeasement and Financing of Destabilizing Regimes Act to prohibit the importation of Venezuelan and Iranian crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products and liquefied natural gas into the United States. The legislation comes in response to recent media reports indicating that the Biden administrat  more