WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Congressman Kelly Armstrong asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture for "substantive justification" on its decision to lift the import ban on Brazilian beef and expressed concerns that Brazilian beef cannot meet the United States' rigorous food safety standards. "Brazilian beef imports have routinely failed to meet acceptable standards in the United States," Armstrong wrote to Mindy M. Brashears, U  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement after voting in favor of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 311): "This legislation should not be controversial. It merely ensures a child born alive after a failed abortion will be given the same immediate medical attention as any other human being whose life is in peril. "Allowing the cries of an already-born baby to go unanswered is haunting, and it should not be polarizing to think o  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, issued the following statement on the Senate confirming Kate MacGregor as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior: "Kate is a good friend I have enjoyed working with over the years. She has a firm grasp on the Interior issues impacting North Dakota and is w  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Feb. 25: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement after voting in favor of S.3275, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: "I promised the people of North Dakota if they sent me to the Senate I would fight for life, and I intend to keep that promise. Late-term abortion is choosing to end the life of an unborn child who can feel pain just like the rest of us. It has no pla  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), bipartisan Senate leaders on market-driven climate policy, called U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to issue its regulatory guidance related to the 45Q tax credit for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). CCU  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Highway Administration awarded a $45,000 grant to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in North Dakota. The Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Roads program (ERFO) is authorized under U.S.C. 23 Section 125 (e) for the repair or reconstruct  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases approved a Small Research Grant totaling $70,500. This will be used to perform allergy, immunology, and transplantation research at the University of North Dakota (UND).  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a grant totaling $235,000 to Minot State University to support universal newborn hearing screening and intervention. The HHS funds are approved under the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). HRSA's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs enable states, families, and prov  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute awarded a grant totaling $432,158 to North Dakota State University (NDSU) to support lung diseases research projects. The HHS funds are approved under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. They will be used specificall  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start awarded a grant of $1,153,729 to the Three Affiliated Tribes in New Town to support Head Start Programs. American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Head Start and Early Head Start programs promote school readiness for children of AIAN heritage by   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Feb. 26: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $70,500 to the University of North Dakota (UND). Today's funds will support allergy, immunology and transplantation research. "Biomedical research conducted at the National Institutes of Heal  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Feb. 26: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $235,000 to Minot State University. Today's funds support the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention program and will support efforts to identify hearing disabilities among newbor  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Feb. 25: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded federal funding to two groups in North Dakota. The Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) Office of Head Start has awarded $1,153,729 to Three Affiliated Tribes to support Head Start services. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * - Senator Helps Present Energy Entrepreneur with Honorary Doctoral Degree from UND * * * Senator John Hoeven joined leaders from the University of North Dakota (UND), its alumni association and foundation and the North Dakota Petroleum Council in presenting Harold Hamm, founder and Executive Chairman of Continental Resources, with an honorary doctorate from the university. The senator remarked o  more

FARGO, North Dakota, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * - Senator Spoke with Under Secretary Northey This Week to Confirm Agreement with Cooperatives, Worked to Secure Full Payments for Losses in 2018 and 2019 * * * Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, outlined the $285 million in disaster assistance for sugar cooperatives he secured to help growers impacted by disasters. Hoeven was joined by Red   more

GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * - Senator Addresses Students at Great Northern Regional Robotics Competition * * * At the Great Northern Regional Robotics Competition, Senator John Hoeven outlined his efforts as a member of the Entrepreneurship Caucus to grow North Dakota's technology sector and highlighted its impacts across the other sectors of the state's economy, providing students with a wide range of caree  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, this week met with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Neil Chatterjee to continue to urge that coal be fairly valued given its reliability as a baseload power source that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The senator stressed that the grid is being forced away from this fuel due to subsidies and s  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven voted to advance two pieces of legislation that he cosponsored to protect both the unborn at 20 weeks of development and infants who survive an attempted abortion. The bills, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, received bipartisan support and were supported by more than half of the Senate, but neither met the 60-vote threshold requir  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * - Senator Invited MacGregor to Visit North Dakota, Urged Her to Advance Energy Development, Tribal Law Enforcement Needs & National Park Maintenance * * * Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, joined the Senate in confirming Katharine MacGregor as the Deputy Secretary of the Interior. The senator helped advance MacGregor's nomination through th  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Feb. 29 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Steve Daines (R-MT) received an update from U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about the Trump Administration's efforts to fight for American pulse crops in trade negotiations. "I thank President Trump for giving our producers a voice as we fight to get them better market access, and I appreciate Secretary Ross providing an update on this North Dakota   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on Feb. 28: Senator John Hoeven, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, and Representative Collin Peterson, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that sugar cooperatives will receive $285 million in disaster assistance to help growers impacted by disasters. Additionally, they worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide coverage under the Wildfir  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency's (FSA's) announcement that the Thune-authored Soil Health and Income Protection Program (SHIPP) pilot will soon be available to producers in South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Montana. The sign-up for this pilot program starts March 30  more