Recent News About Kevin Cramer
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Sen. Cramer Attends Change of Command Ceremony at Grand Forks Air Force Base
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), attended a Change of Command ceremony at Grand Forks Air Force Base as Colonel Timothy Curry formally relinquished command of the 319th Reconaissance Wing to Colonel Timothy Monroe.
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Sen. Cramer Announces DOT Awards Over $18 Million to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded $18,572,895 to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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Sens. Cramer, Kennedy Introduce Bill to Increase Scrutiny Over Chinese Investments on American Soil
U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced the Exposing China’s Belt and Road Investment in America Act to put Chinese greenfield initiatives within the purview of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
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Sen. Cramer: Rail Companies Issue Status Reports on Grain Car Backlog
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.
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Sen. Cramer: Senate Armed Services Committee Passes 2024 NDAA with North Dakota Wins
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement today after he and his Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) colleagues voted to advance the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) out of committee.
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Sen. Cramer Questions Federal Reserve Chair on Increasing Capital, Changing Existing Liquidity Requirements
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), during a Banking Committee hearing on the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, questioned Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on increasing capital and reevaluating existing liquidity requirements should another bank failure occur.
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Sen. Cramer Announces Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Secures $19 Million for Dakota Carrier Network
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded Dakota Carrier Network (DCN) $19,710,574 through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program.
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Sen. Cramer Votes to Rescind Biden Administration’s Overbearing ATF Rule
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement after voting for a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to block the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from reclassifying pistols with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles.
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U.S. Needs a Thorough Plan to Address China’s Economic Aggression
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, penned an op-ed in the Washington Times outlining a comprehensive America First production and manufacturing policy to counter Chinese economic aggression.
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Sen. Cramer Statement: Senate Fails to Override President Biden’s Veto of CRA on Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement after the Senate failed to override President Biden’s veto of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) which would overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) heavy-duty vehicle emissions regulations.
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Sens. Cramer, King Launch American Canadian Economy and Security Caucus
U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Angus King (I-ME), northern border senators and members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), announced they will be leading the American Canadian Economy and Security (ACES) Caucus, a bipartisan, bicameral caucus dedicated to strengthening the economic and national security relationship between the United States and Canada.
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Sen. Cramer, Colleagues Call Out Biden Administration for Sidestepping Spy Balloon Inquiry
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined his Senate colleagues in writing a letter to President Biden calling out a constant lack of transparency related to the takedown of a Chinese spy balloon in February.
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Sen. Cramer: Rail Companies Issue Status Reports on Grain Car Backlog
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).
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Sen. Cramer Announces Nearly $300,000 Grant to North Dakota State University for Crop Breeding Research
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded $299,581 to North Dakota State University to facilitate breeding research and develop new genetic and genomic resources for a variety of wheat species.
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Sen. Cramer Questions Federal Highway Administrator on the Legal Authority to Promulgate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rule
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) at a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, questioned Federal Highway Administrator (FHWA) Shailen Bhatt on the agency’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Performance Measure Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which imposes GHG performance measures on state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations without any new authority from Congress.
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Sen. Cramer, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation to Combat 'Smash-And-Grab' Robberies
U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reintroduced the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) Protection Act of 2023.
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Sen. Cramer, Colleagues Demand Navy Secretary to Follow the Law, Revise Shipbuilding Plan
U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) joined 12 of their colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) in sending a letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro demanding he uphold his commitment to provide an updated 30-year shipbuilding plan to the committee and abide by the Navy’s statutory requirement to maintain a minimum of 31 amphibious warfare ships.
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Sen. Cramer Announces $8.3 Million Grant for Home and Community-Based Services
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $8,334,907 to the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS).
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Sens. Cramer, Menendez Lead 34 Senators in Requesting CMS to Adjust Proposed Payment Update in Final IPPS Rule
U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) led 34 of their Senate colleagues on a bipartisan letter requesting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to modify the proposed payment update in the final inpatient prospective payment system rule through the use of special exceptions and adjustments authority.
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Sen. Cramer Announces $68 Million for North Dakota’s CTE Centers Application
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of the Treasury has approved North Dakota’s application for more than $68 million in funding for Career and Technical Education (CTE) Centers.