36 Facts About Kevin Cramer

Kevin John Cramer was born on January 21,1961 and is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator for North Dakota since 2019.

Kevin Cramer served on the state's Public Service Commission from 2003 to 2012.

Kevin Cramer was born in Rolette, North Dakota, the first of five children of Clarice and Richard Kevin Cramer.

Kevin Cramer was raised in Kindred, North Dakota, in Cass County, and graduated from Kindred High School.

Kevin Cramer earned a master's degree in management from the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, in 2003.

Kevin Cramer served as chairman of the North Dakota Republican Party from 1991 to 1993.

Kevin Cramer was preceded by Jim Fuglie and succeeded by Bob Martinson.

Kevin Cramer served in the position until he was appointed Economic Development Director in June 1997.

Kevin Cramer was preceded by Chuck Stroup and succeeded by Lee Peterson in December 2000 as the director.

On January 14, Kevin Cramer announced that he would run for North Dakota's seat in the United States House of Representatives for a third time in the 2010 election.

Kevin Cramer attended numerous Tea Party rallies in North Dakota, speaking about energy, taxes, jobs and the US Constitution.

In 2014 Kevin Cramer ran for reelection and was unopposed in the Republican primary.

Kevin Cramer is a critic of Planned Parenthood and has called for cutting off public funding of the group.

In 2013 Cramer condemned the Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade and tied an uptick in mass shootings to the legalization of abortion and a decline in religious values.

Kevin Cramer has been closely allied with Donald Trump since the latter first announced he was running for president in 2016, and was "one of a handful of early Trump endorsers" among US House Republicans.

On May 28,2021, Kevin Cramer voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

Kevin Cramer has said that he would support a small carbon tax if the revenue went to research and development on clean fuel.

Kevin Cramer wrote Trump's energy plan, which heavily promoted fossil fuels, weakened environmental regulation, and vowed to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and repeal US regulations of carbon emissions.

Kevin Cramer said that gun control would not have prevented the Orlando nightclub shooting.

Kevin Cramer opposes the Affordable Care Act and voted to repeal it without a replacement five times.

Kevin Cramer has voted against health insurance protections for patients with preexisting conditions and against the expansion of Medicaid.

Kevin Cramer has said that the American Health Care Act of 2017, the Republican bill he supported to repeal and replace Obamacare, would have prevented "price discrimination" against people with preexisting conditions; The Washington Post fact-checker called this assertion false.

Kevin Cramer opposed adding unruly passengers to the "no-fly" list, saying that unruly passengers who refuse to comply with mask requirements are not the same as terrorists.

Kevin Cramer questioned whether Ford's allegation would disqualify Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court even if true, but said that if Kavanaugh were found to have lied in denying the allegation, that would be disqualifying.

Kevin Cramer has voted to repeal the estate tax, which imposes a tax after the first several million dollars on a dead person's estate.

On January 11,2018, after months of speculation, Kevin Cramer announced that he would not seek the Republican nomination for US Senate to run against Democratic-NPL incumbent Heidi Heitkamp and would instead run for reelection to the US House.

In June 2018, The Washington Post reported that Kevin Cramer had contacted the White House to seek political help in his Senate campaign and was upset that Trump had not publicly criticized Heitkamp in the same way that he had criticized other Democrats.

Kevin Cramer later publicly criticized White House staff and argued that Trump was refraining because Heitkamp was a woman.

Kevin Cramer won the Republican nomination for the US Senate on June 12,2018.

In July 2019, Kevin Cramer said he favored lawsuits seeking to overturn Obamacare.

Kevin Cramer had pushed the Army Corps to use a North Dakota firm run by his 2018 campaign donor Tommy Fisher.

In October 2019, Kevin Cramer defended Trump's decision to host the G7 conference at the Trump National Doral Miami, a resort Trump owns.

Kevin Cramer said, "I don't have any concerns about it other than just politically how it appears", and praised Trump for the "tremendous integrity in his boldness and his transparency" in deciding to select his own property for the summit.

In December 2019, at Trump's request, Kevin Cramer cast the only vote against a Senate motion to recognize the Armenian genocide, passage of which required unanimous consent.

In May 2022, Kevin Cramer expressed support for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's potential candidacy in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

In June 2022, Kevin Cramer suffered a serious injury to his right hand while doing yard work.