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North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's decision to vote against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court defies her state's heavy support for President Donald Trump, but could boost the vulnerable Democrat's standing with independents and women. In a politically fraught decision Thursday just a month before the Nov. 6 election, Heitkamp cited concerns about the federal judge's temperament in announcing her opposition.
North Dakota is going ahead with requiring residents to provide a street address in order to vote on Election Day, even though some American Indian tribes have argued in federal court that they sometimes aren't assigned on reservations. Secretary of State Al Jaeger's office notified the state's five tribes by email late Friday of North Dakota voter ID requirements.
National Corn Growers Association President Kevin Skunes presented NCGA's 2018 President's Award to North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven. The President's Award is given annually at NCGA's Corn Congress meeting in Washington to a leader who has worked to advance issues important to corn growers and agriculture.
"Heitkamp's talk of deficits is pure speculation and none of it takes into account the economic growth the Trump pro-growth agenda is delivering." - statement on the website Get the Facts ND, June 4, 2018 One pernicious response to the growth of political fact-checking is the trend by politicians to create their own faux fact-checking websites.
In this May 26, 2016, file photo, North Dakota state Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D, speaks in Bismarck, N.D. Cramer, a candidate for U.S. Senate, faces Thomas O'Neill, an Air Force veteran who didn't mount a serious campaign, in the Tuesday, June 12, 2018, Republican primary.
Every year millions of taxpayer dollars are lost on wasted natural gas in North Dakota and other western states. With the country facing increasing debt and growing deficits this is no time to give away billions of dollars to profitable businesses.
Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-backed political advocacy group, is running a digital ad thanking a vulnerable Democratic senator for her support of bank deregulation legislation ahead of the midterm elections. The ad, which launched Friday, thanks North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is fighting to hold onto her seat in a state that Trump carried by 36 points in 2016, for cosponsoring a rollback of some Dodd-Frank Act regulations.
Americans for Prosperity launched a digital ad campaign Friday thanking Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. The North Dakota Democrat co-sponsored a bill easing regulations on small banks.
A Fargo man convicted of threatening U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Prosecutors say Olson sent an email to Heitkamp's office, threatening to shoot her in the head. He faced a maximum sentence of five years.
A district court ruled against the state's voter-ID law in April-but with midterms looming, the fight for Native voting rights isn't over yet. People vote at a polling station on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Fort Yates, North Dakota on November 8, 2016.
North Dakota U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer, considered Republicans' best hope of unseating incumbent Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, was greeted by throngs of GOP delegates at the state endorsing convention on Saturday with smiles, handshakes, and well-wishes. In 2012, Cramer, a longtime Republican activist who has served as the North Dakota party's director and chairman, bypassed the party convention and challenged the party's endorsed U.S. House candidate in a primary.
Hoeven: Sen. John Hoeven released the following statement after voting for a continuing resolution to keep the government operating and make sure the military gets paid. The legislation provides a long-term, six-year reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program to ensure that states, including those running out of funding in January, can continue to provide children with health care.
The president began his week putting farmers at the forefront. Speaking in front of the annual American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, President Trump assured attendees a new age of prosperity is coming.
The North Dakota Association of Student Councils hosts a conference every year to elect officials and give student leaders new ideas for their own schools. Hoeven was there to recognize the efforts that North Dakota students put forward throughout the year.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a list of the states most likely to be negatively affected if the U.S. withdraws from the North American Free Trade Agreement, placing North Dakota at third, behind only Michigan and Wisconsin. "Absolutely," says Lindsey Warner, director of marketing and events at NDTO.
Almost 54 years have passed since John F. Kennedy was slain in Dallas, and Clint Hill-a North Dakota native and member of the president's Secret Service detail-can still clearly remember every detail. It was Hill who leapt onto the back of Kennedy's automobile after shots echoed into Dealey Plaza, urging the driver to get the president to the hospital.
North Dakota's congressional delegation are expressing their concern that President Trump's fiscal year 2018 proposed budget does not adequately support agriculture. "I appreciate the president's commitment to cutting the deficit and balancing the budget for the first time in several years.
The Oceti Sakowin camp near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, pictured Feb. 19, 2017. For months now, the population has dwindled at the Oceti Sakowin camp, the hub of the movement to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
The Oceti Sakowin protest camp near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. is pictured in this February 19, 2017 handout photo. North Dakota Joint Information Center/Handout via The Oceti Sakowin protest camp near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. is pictured in this February 19, 2017 handout photo.
The Latest on the Dakota Access pipeline being built to carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois : The chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux says the tribe is "undaunted" by an Army decision to allow completion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Dave Archambault said Tuesday that the tribe will challenge in court the Army's decision to halt further study on the pipeline's crossing of the Missouri River in North Dakota.