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Kevin John Cramer is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from North Dakota since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Cramer previously represented North Dakota's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 2013, to January 3, 2019. Throughout his political career, he has focused on issues such as energy policy, agriculture, and veterans' affairs, often advocating for North Dakota's interests on a national level.
I want to take particular note today of a small item in the Department of Justice budget--the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. This agency, which began in 1974 with a focus on noncriminal juvenile offenders and four…
do we want welfare reform? That is the bottom line here today. The Castle-Tanner bill is a bipartisan bill. It shares and improves upon the leadership's ideas on how to restructure our welfare system that has become a burned-out…
I support the Brown substitute now because I supported the Brown substitute for the entire bill. If that fails, then of course I will support the Wamp proposal as well. I am concerned about the budget impact on the National Weather…
the Weather Service Modernization Act, which was passed in 1992, established procedures for the modernization of the National Weather Service. A lot of us here today, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Roemer] included, and the gentleman from…
I offer an amendment, as modified. The Clerk read as follows: Amendment as modified, offered by Mr. Cramer: Page 87, lines 1 through 21, amend subsection (g) to read as follows: (g) Weather Service Modernization.--The Weather Service…
Mr. Chairman, I rise, unfortunately, in opposition to the committee's bill. I have several concerns about this bill. One of those concerns I will raise in an amendment that I and the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Roemer] will offer when we…
I want to briefly point out that H.R. 3322 will eliminate one NSF directorate, and yet we do not know the effect of that on the agency. So I think we are imposing an organizational change on that agency before we hear from that agency, and…
My colleague from Alabama is correct, Mr. Chairman. ARC, as was stated by our colleague from Kentucky, has helped in slashing the region's poverty rate in half. We have cut the infant mortality rate by two-thirds. We have reduced…
I would assert this amendment would allow the States the flexibility to build all kinds of facilities. I will support later amendments to this bill that will allow other kinds of juvenile incarceration facilities to be built, but I think…
I want to say I represent the State of Alabama, one of 44 of 47 States that likely would not qualify under this current approach to building prisons. In my former life I was the president of the Alabama District Attorneys Association. I…
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