Sen. Kevin Cramer
Senator for North Dakota
pronounced KEH-vin // KRAY-mer
Cramer is the junior senator from North Dakota and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Cramer is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 62 years old.
He was previously the representative for North Dakota’s at-large district as a Republican from 2013 to 2018.
![Photo of Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]](/static/legislator-photos/412555-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Cramer was among the Republican legislators who participated in President Trump’s months-long, multifarious attempted coup during the 2020 presidential election. Cramer offered to raise funds for the Trump Campaign’s efforts to contest the election results.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Cramer.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Cramer is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Cramer has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 21, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Kevin Cramer sits on the following committees:
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Senate Committee on Armed Services
- Seapower subcommittee Ranking Member
Readiness and Management Support, Strategic Forces subcommittees -
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee Ranking Member
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Enacted Legislation
Cramer was the primary sponsor of 7 bills that were enacted:
- S. 3323 (117th): Veterans Justice Outreach Improvement Act of 2021
- S. 2433 (117th): Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2021
- H.R. 6038 (115th): To establish a procedure for the conveyance of certain Federal property around the Dickinson Reservoir in the State of North Dakota.
- H.R. 6039 (115th): To establish a procedure for the conveyance of certain Federal property around the Jamestown Reservoir in the State of North Dakota, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 2154 (115th): To rename the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center in Fargo, North Dakota, as the Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center.
- H.R. 1168 (114th): Native American Children’s Safety Act
- H.R. 767 (113th): To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to modify the Pilot Project offices of the Federal Permit Streamlining Pilot Project.
Does 7 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cramer sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (22%) Water Resources Development (18%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Taxation (12%) International Affairs (10%) Law (8%) Armed Forces and National Security (8%) Health (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Cramer recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 1501: Bank Service Company Examination Coordination Act of 2023
- S. 1358: LAKES Act
- S. 1212: Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2023
- S. 461: A bill to make certain irrigation districts eligible for Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program …
- S. 293: Fair Access to Banking Act
- S.Res. 821 (117th): A resolution condemning the arrest of Cardinal Zen in Hong Kong, and …
- S. 4695 (117th): Western Water Cooperative Committee Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Sep 2023, Cramer missed 154 of 1,902 roll call votes, which is 8.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
