Kelly Armstrong

We are also supporting statewide and other legislative candidates in the fall that did not have competitive primaries.

The slate of candidates I have endorsed and financially supported are focused on results-driven policies for our state.

I would go to the mat every day, and twice on Sundays, to defend this selection for the Rough Rider Award.

Record high diesel prices are squeezing our ag producers, and this is a meaningful and timely step we can take to provide temporary relief and help our farmers and ranchers through the harvest season.

The path forward for the Missouri River needs to be shaped collectively by the basin states working together, and we welcome every basin state to the table to find solutions that respect each state’s individual rights and interests.

Our right to use Missouri River water as we deem necessary – whether it’s for drinking water, irrigation, industrial uses or emergency water supplies during a drought – is clearly established in both state and federal law, and we will…

North Dakota’s workforce system is fragmented, with programs and services scattered across multiple agencies. By aligning programs and appointing a cabinet-level workforce commissioner to coordinate their efforts, we can better meet the…

If you are really busy, you don’t have time to negotiate seven different drop down tabs on nine different websites, trying to figure out how all of that works.

The people that are looking for work in those legislators’ communities are going to like this.

One of the things we recognize is we need to better align the systems that North Dakota already has.

The new State Hospital is a once-in-a-generation investment in the future of behavioral health in North Dakota.

While we preferred a total ban on kratom, we appreciate the Legislature convening in special session and working hard to pass a meaningful law that protects the well-being of our citizens.

This is a victory for public health and safety, keeping dangerous synthetic kratom products off the shelves and protecting our young people from the adverse and unknown long-term effects of natural kratom, which is not regulated by the FDA…

I think we owe it just from a straight consumer protection standpoint. People should know that what they’re buying is what the package says it is.

We got 90% of what we wanted.

There should be some tough hearings and some tough questions asked.

I can’t imagine a scenario happening like this again as long as I’m governor.

“At the very least, we should have a 21-and-older age restriction on purchasing kratom, and a truth-in-labeling law so consumers actually know what they’re taking,”

“We are here to address a public safety and a public health issue that simply cannot wait for the regular legislative calendar to run its course,”

“Getting the criminal policy correct on this is especially important. I don’t want to make someone a felon in September for something they could buy easily over the counter in July,”

“I’m not really interested in anecdotal ‘wonder drug’ testimonials. I’m interested in verifiable data, and the problem with this product is there is none,”

“People were overdosing and dying from a product that they could buy off the shelf without any regulations or any age restrictions. That’s why we took it off the shelves until you all could be convened,”

I urge the Republican-led Legislature to ban kratom in all its forms, calling it unregulated and unsafe.

This presidential declaration will help our communities and utilities with their considerable recovery costs.