WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after voting to hold Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable for failing to uphold the law and secure the border. Hoeven has been making the case for the Senate to fulfill its constitutional duty by holding a trial to consider the impeachment articles, however Senate Democrats instead blocked efforts to hold a trial and   more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven joined a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter led by Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) to Michael Regan, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), opposing a rule from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) that would harm the rail industry, threaten the supply chain and hurt the U.S. economy. "Attempts to create state-specific operational rules, such as   more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven cosponsored a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval, led by Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.), today to overturn the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) radical climate disclosure rule that would unfairly target energy producers and result in hampered economic growth, increased red tape for public companies and higher prices for cons  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement opposing the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) final Public Lands Rule that seeks to overhaul the management of more than 245 million acres of taxpayer-owned lands. The rule would establish "conservation leases" that would lock away federal lands in conflict with the longstanding tradition   more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, this week joined his Senate Republican colleagues in pushing back on Biden administration policies that are handcuffing U.S. oil production. The senator stressed that by restricting production of taxpayer-owned minerals and increasing the cost of domestic energy production, President Biden is undermining the econom  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: At the beginning of March, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized its Climate Disclosure Rule, requiring publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data. Upon implementation, this final rule will stifle economic opportunity while raising costs for consumers. U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban A  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: In the midst of an opioid pandemic, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced in 2023 it has significantly decreased the number of veterans with opioid prescriptions by 67% since 2012. However, estimates show opioids remain the default treatments for acute pain, with more than 3.75 million patients initiating long-term opioid use after a low-risk surgery. Increasing the availability of no  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and John Hoeven (R-ND), along with Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), introduced the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Act, which would support the construction of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library (TRPL) in Medora, North Dakota. The legislation would authorize funding for the library's continued construction, ensuring the preservation of Pres  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced an award of $3,252,604 to three colleges in North Dakota through the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program, which seeks to increase the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education. The NSF awards will be distributed to the following institutions: $1,536,07  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: On Wednesday, the United States Senate dismissed articles of impeachment against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas twice by a vote of 51 to 49. The U.S. House of Representatives impeached Secretary Mayorkas in early February for his unlawful handling of the crisis at the southern border. The two articles of impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas alleged willful and systemic refusal  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK - Enacted in 2008, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) gives the federal government authority to conduct warrantless surveillance of suspected foreign terrorists located abroad. Specifically, the law allows the government to target almost any person or group abroad and acquire their communications without an individualized court order. However, Americans' communicat  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: The U.S. Air Force has developed a trend of rapid divestment from airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms without producing new capabilities to replace them. These actions leave our troops unprotected, force our Commanders to accept greater risk, and deny our civilian policy makers the best information available before having to decide whether to use military force. On   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: ***Click here to download video. Click here for audio.*** The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) held a hearing on Tuesday where members heard testimony from Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David Allvin, and Chief of Space Operations General B. Chance Saltzman. The military leadership were questioned about their Defense Authorization Request for Fi  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: In 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule which rolls back the state preemption of in-use locomotives regulation, opening the door to the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) waiver to implement stricter regulations on in-use locomotive emissions than the national standard. CARB's In-Use Locomotive Regulation would prohibit the operation of locomotives in California m  more