WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) sent a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall demanding answers on a recent decision by Minot Air Force Base (AFB) leadership to tell service members that their military careers would be jeopardized if they attended a local event featuring a speaker from the conservative organization Turning Point Action. Last week, it was reported the  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: *** Click here for photos.*** WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Co-Chair of the Senate Space Force Caucus and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), delivered remarks at the Space Force's Fourth Birthday Celebration. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, Chief of Space Operations General Chance Saltzman, and House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers also attended the ev  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.*** U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss expectations ahead of tomorrow's Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting. Additionally, they discussed rare earth development and whether the U.S. will be able to unleash do  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK -- U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule expanding methane regulations. "The Biden administration has piled on another massive regulatory burden designed to encumber and even shut down American energy production. I led all of my Repu  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined his colleagues in a letter calling on President Biden to reverse the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) decision to abandon positions at the World Trade Organization (WTO) which allow the free flow of information across borders, protect against the forced transfer of American technology, and promote open markets for digitalgoods exported by creators and businesses.  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined his colleagues in introducing the Farmers Freedom Act of 2023, legislation requiring the Biden administration to revert to the definition of prior converted cropland (PCC) from the Trump administration's Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. During the Trump administration, the definition in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Navigable Wate  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined his colleagues in introducing the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act to protect child welfareproviders from being discriminated against for acting in accordance with their religious beliefs. Additionally, the legislation would prohibit federal, state, and local government agencies that receive federal adoption assistance from discriminating against child service  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- 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 his colleagues in a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, requesting strong language in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to address the national security threat posed by sensitive technologies with dual-use applications being acquired by  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- 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 Transpo  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Bryce Kirk, councilman for the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, at an oversight hearing on Nov. 8, 2023, entitled "Fentanyl in Native Communities: Native Perspectives on Addressing the Growing Crisis": * * * I am Bryce Kirk, Councilman for the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation. I would like to thank the Committee for the invitation to testify on the im  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) co-led members on a bicameral amicus brief to uphold the rights of all Americans to keep and bear arms, especially veterans and disabled individuals who need assistance to exercise their rights. The members state the Second Amendment is a fundamental protection of liberty which is deeply rooted in our nation's history and traditi  more