WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a COVID-19 emergency grant of $58,008 to Cass County. These funds come through the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) Program as authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CESF Program will provide a total of $850 million to states, loc  more

BISMARCK, April 18 -- 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 two grants totaling $2,500,000 to the North Dakota State Department of Human Services and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for COVID-19 impact response and recovery. * The North Dakota State Department of Human Services received a Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Grant of $2,000,000 through the HH  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awarded $509,615 to Job Service North Dakota to provide North Dakotans with Disaster Recovery Dislocation Worker Grants (DWGs) for COVID-19 impact relief. The funds are apportioned as authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, legislation crafted in the Senate which Senator Cramer helped p  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- 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$435,000 to North Dakota State University (NDSU) to perform heart and vascular disease research. This grant is an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) and was approved through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute under HHS. NDSU will use the funds to finance the project entitled "Reg  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded funds to North Dakota airports as a part of their $10 billion nation-wide allocation to commercial and general aviation airports through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Airport Grant Program. This funding will support continuing operations and replace lost revenue resulting fro  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- 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 $430,311 to the North Dakota Hospital Foundation for their Hospital Preparedness Program. This grant was approved through the HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Response and will be used to finance the Hospital Association's COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Activities. The North Dakota Hospita  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Education (ED) awarded the state of North Dakota $5,932,707 in State Flexibility Funding for Coronavirus (COVID--19) response efforts apportioned through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This ED award is made available through Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund authorized in the CARES Act.   more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- 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 $1,297,651 to Valley Community Health Centers headquartered in Grand Forks. The discretionary funds were approved through the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration Program Headquarters Office. This will allow Valley Community Health Centers to continue to provide qua  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on April 16 after speaking with President Trump: "I called President Trump after our Task Force meeting to personally thank him for his work in ending the harmful oil dispute between Saudi Arabia and Russia and to encourage him to keep holding them accountable. These countries would have continued their de-facto war on American oil producers if not for the President's successful intervention. "The Preside  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on April 16 after the Paycheck Protection Program running out of funds: "The blame lies at the feet of Democrats who would rather exploit a crisis to advance their extreme partisan agenda than fund a wildly popular program they helped create. I urge them to stop their reckless behavior and support a clean appropriation for the Paycheck Protection Program." The Paycheck Protection Program was created as pa  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Martha McSally, Kevin Cramer, Steve Daines, Todd Young and Joni Ernst sent a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting information ahead of a Congressional hearing to investigate the WHO's role in helping Communist China cover up information regarding the threat of the Coronavirus. In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for FOX News l  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 16 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 15: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), announcing a temporary final rule to change certain H-2A requirements amid COVID-19: "This is good work by DHS Acting Secretary Wolf and USDA Secretary Perdue. Today's temporary rule helps agricultural pr  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 14: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has awarded $6,037,905 in Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funding to the State of North Dakota. Today's funding, made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, will aid families and child care providers a  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 13: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $430,311 to the North Dakota Hospital Foundation. Today's funding supports coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) preparedness and response activities within the HHS Hospital Preparedne  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 16: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $509,615 to Job Service North Dakota. Today's funding comes from the Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and will help create temporary jobs for individuals currently dislocated from work due to the coron  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 14: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Committee, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded $85,019,530 in funding to North Dakota airports. Today's funding comes from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and will be used to directly help airports including with debt paymen  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 14: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded $435,000 to North Dakota State University (NDSU). Today's funds will support research into the prevention and treatment of heart and vascular diseases. "This award will support the continued good work of researchers at NDSU and is an investment in t  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 17: Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded funding to two groups in North Dakota. Today's funding was made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The North Dakota State Department of Human Services has received $2 million for crisis intervention se  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 15 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven outlined to National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) members the assistance provided in the COVID-19 response legislation, including the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Hoeven hosted Small Business Administration (SBA) North Dakota District Director Alan Haut for the video conference, which comes as part of a series of meetings that t  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA), convened a video conference with North Dakota Tribal leaders and officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to discuss implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in tribal communities. "Tribal enterprises, including small businesses, are essential to the economy in   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 17 -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee issued the following news release: Senator John Hoeven, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA), today convened a video conference with North Dakota Tribal leaders and officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to discuss implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in tribal communities. "Tribal enterprises, including small businesses, are essentia  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 17: During a video conference with the Greater North Dakota Chamber (GNDC), Senator John Hoeven led a discussion on the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic with North Dakota business leaders and administration and state officials, including U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia as well as officials from the Small Business Administration (SBA), Federal Emergency Management Agen  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 13 -- 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 after Saudi Arabia, Russia and other oil-producing nations reached an agreement to cut oil production by nearly 10 million barrels per day (bpd). Hoeven has been working with the administration to put an end to the oil price war and spoke with Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette ye  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement: Senator John Hoeven released the following statement after the Administration announced the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) had exhausted $350 billion in funding. The senator stressed the importance of providing the requested $250 billion in additional funding for the PPP, which was created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to help small businesses and their  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement on April 16: Senator John Hoeven released the following statement after being selected as a member of President Trump's Congressional Economic Task Force, which will help provide counsel to the President on the re-opening of America in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Senator, and a bipartisan group of Senators, spoke with the President earlier and Hoeven also spoke with Larry Kudlow, the   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 16: Senator John Hoeven brought together North Dakota health care providers and administration officials to discuss the assistance passed by Congress to support efforts to combat COVID-19 as well as administrative actions put in place to assist health care providers as they address the pandemic. This includes the following programs under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement: Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after the U.S. Treasury announced that it would work with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to ensure veterans receive their recovery rebate checks provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Veterans and their beneficiaries who receive Compensation and Pension benefits will receive the payments automatic  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on April 13: U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) issued the following statements on the United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia striking a deal to cut oil production: "Thank you to President Trump and Secretary Brouillette for your strong and tireless advocacy on behalf of American oil producers, which sealed this unprecedented deal. "Without it, the United States could have los  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, led a nearly two-hour call between a group of senators and Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, and Deputy Defense Minister, Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. "While we appreciate them taking the first step toward fixing the problem they helped create, the S  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: Senators John Hoeven (R-ND) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) led a bipartisan group of Senators in urging the U.S. Department of Treasury and U.S Department of Veterans Affairs to provide recovery rebate checks to veterans as quickly as possible by automatically sending payments to veterans who do not file tax returns - similarly to how Treasury is sending payments to Social Security recipients who do not file   more