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Kevin Cramer

RepublicanKevin Cramer

U.S. Senator · North Dakota

RepublicanFederal

U.S. Senator from North Dakota

13 tracked promises, 10 rated

North Dakota

North Dakota

Represents North Dakota statewide

86/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
86
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+72) to 0–100, aggregated from 10 rated promises. Never an opaque single score.
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How they won their seat

Kevin Cramer won the 2024 U.S. Senate election in North Dakota with 66.3% of the vote (241,569 votes).

66.3%
Win share
241,569
Votes for winner
364,327
Total cast
  • Kevin Cramer · Republican66.3%
  • Katrina Christiansen · Democrat33.4%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.3%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Kevin Cramer's record shows a concentration on issues related to agriculture, energy, and veterans' affairs, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025 and the Veterans Outdoor Rehabilitation Act. Additionally, his involvement in various Senate committees, particularly those focused on Armed Services and Environment and Public Works, further highlights his engagement in these areas. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Energy · Veterans · Healthcare · Regulation · Border Security Alignment with declared positions: Consistent. Cramer's sponsored bills and committee memberships reflect his declared positions on agriculture, energy, and veterans' issues. His voting record includes votes on border security and abortion. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or the extent of their impact; There is no information on the outcomes of his committee work or how it translates to legislative success; The record does not provide insight into his interactions with constituents or how his positions are perceived by the public. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Kevin Cramer has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2022. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Kevin Cramer has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

9bills sponsored
9 awaiting status
035810Bills2022: 9 awaiting status92022

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$10.5M
Raised, 20142026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2014: raised $1.5M2014: spent $1.5M20142016: raised $1.4M2016: spent $1.0M20162022: raised $566K2022: spent $382K20222024: raised $5.6M2024: spent $3.6M20242026: raised $1.5M2026: spent $1.5M20262014: cash on hand $02016: cash on hand $02022: cash on hand $02024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $154K (10%)10%Large individual (itemized): $780K (53%)53%PAC / committee: $536K (36%)36%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$154K10%
  • Large individual (itemized)$780K53%
  • PAC / committee$536K36%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+72 · based on 10 rated promises

  • Attempted 3
  • Partial 1
  • Championed 2
  • Fully Kept 4

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2019 · 10 rated promises

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Jul 202675
Jul 202650
Jul 202670
Jul 202675
Jul 202668
Jul 202675
Jul 202680
Jul 202677
Jul 202676
Jul 202672
Jan 203172 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

10 tracked
  • Kept10
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
0510Jul 2026Jul 2026Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 3— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

13 promises across 13 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Abortion / Life1
  • Abortion Funding1
  • Agriculture / Farm Bill1
  • Commerce / Notarization1
  • Defense / Nuclear Modernization1
  • Education1
  • Energy1
  • Energy / Climate1
  • Government Reform / Regulation1
  • Immigration1
  • Immigration / Border Security1
  • Social Security / Medicare1
  • Taxes1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)13100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
23
35
45
50

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

13 tracked promises

Fully Kepthigh confidence

Cramer committed to fight for life at all stages and to vote against measures expanding abortion, framing it as a standing promise to his constituents.

Abortion / LifeSpecific · measurablePromised May 2022
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archivedThe FederalistU.S. Senate — Roll Call Vote 119th Congress, 1st Session, Vote #372 (July 1, 2025), H.R.1· archived
Attemptedmedium confidence

Cramer committed to pursuing Social Security and Medicare solvency through incremental program changes affecting only future recipients aged 55 and under, while preserving benefits for those currently relying on them.

Social Security / MedicareSpecific · measurable
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov), April 16, 2021 — re-verified live· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov), March 20, 2023 — re-verified live· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer — Issues: Social Security and Medicare — re-verified live· archivedKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archived
Fully Kepthigh confidence

Cramer pledged to keep pushing legislation providing relief to North Dakota agricultural producers and to keep working to advance a farm bill.

Agriculture / Farm BillSpecific · measurable
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archived
Fully Kepthigh confidence

Cramer pledged to secure the southern border by building a physical border wall and hiring additional Border Patrol agents.

Immigration / Border SecuritySpecific · measurable
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archivedU.S. Senate (official roll call vote record)· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archived
Attemptedhigh confidence

Cramer committed to passing the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act to bar federal funds from any entity that performs abortions.

Abortion FundingPromised Jul 2021
SourcesCongress.govOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
Championedhigh confidence

In his maiden Senate speech, Cramer vowed to take on what he called an unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucracy.

Government Reform / RegulationPromised Dec 2019
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archived
Championedhigh confidence

Cramer committed to an all-of-the-above energy approach and to advancing nuclear energy as a clean electricity source.

Energy
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (Dec. 3, 2020)· archivedKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archivedU.S. GPO govinfo — Public Law 118-67 (signed July 9, 2024)Office of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedU.S. GPO govinfo — S.1111, ADVANCE Act of 2023 (118th Congress)Office of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (Nov. 3, 2021)· archivedUnited States Senate, Roll Call Vote 118th Congress, 2nd Session, No. 200 (June 18, 2024)· archived
Partialmedium confidence

Cramer committed to act to defund sanctuary cities.

Immigration
SourcesKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer· archivedCongress.gov Library of Congress S.685
Attemptedhigh confidence

Cramer committed to passing the PEACE Act to prohibit federal education funding from being used to promote Critical Race Theory and 'divisive concepts.'

EducationPromised Jul 2023
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio· archivedCongress.gov / Library of CongressGovTrack
Fully Kepthigh confidence

Cramer committed to legislation (the Real Emergencies Act) to prevent a president from declaring climate change a national emergency.

Energy / ClimatePromised Jun 2023
SourcesBillTrack50 (tracking Congress.gov S.2118)Office of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Cramer committed to seeing nuclear modernization — replacing the Minuteman III with the Sentinel ICBM, anchored at Minot Air Force Base — done right.

Defense / Nuclear ModernizationSpecific · measurablePromised Aug 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Cramer committed to passing the Death Tax Repeal Act to permanently repeal the federal estate ('death') tax.

TaxesPromised Feb 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Cramer committed to passing the SECURE Notarization Act to authorize remote online notarizations nationwide and make them valid across state lines.

Commerce / NotarizationPromised May 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived

Verified record

126 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Dec 31, 2016

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,408,241, spent $1,033,730, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 126 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
890
Yea
633
Nay
226
Present
0
Not voting
31

Full voting record

890 votes
  • PN1078Yea
  • PN1078Yea
  • HR6500Not voting
  • PN73011Yea
  • PN73011Yea
  • PN932Yea
  • PN932Yea
120 of 890
Page 1 / 45

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

15 positions on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Social Security / MedicareStated position

    Cramer committed to pursuing Social Security and Medicare solvency through incremental program changes affecting only future recipients aged 55 and under, while preserving benefits for those currently relying on them.

    SourcesKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archived
    View position & sources
  • EnergyStated position

    Cramer committed to an all-of-the-above energy approach and to advancing nuclear energy as a clean electricity source.

    SourcesKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Agriculture / Farm BillStated position

    Cramer pledged to keep pushing legislation providing relief to North Dakota agricultural producers and to keep working to advance a farm bill.

    SourcesKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archived
    View position & sources
  • ImmigrationStated position

    Cramer committed to act to defund sanctuary cities.

    SourcesKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Immigration / Border SecurityStated position

    Cramer pledged to secure the southern border by building a physical border wall and hiring additional Border Patrol agents.

    SourcesKevin Cramer for U.S. Senate campaign (kevincramer.org)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Defense / Nuclear ModernizationStated position

    Cramer committed to seeing nuclear modernization — replacing the Minuteman III with the Sentinel ICBM, anchored at Minot Air Force Base — done right.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Commerce / NotarizationStated position

    Cramer committed to passing the SECURE Notarization Act to authorize remote online notarizations nationwide and make them valid across state lines.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • TaxesStated position

    Cramer committed to passing the Death Tax Repeal Act to permanently repeal the federal estate ('death') tax.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting YEA on Durbin Amendment No. 1841, as modified, to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment whose stated purpose was to prohibit warrantless access to the communications and other information of United States persons. The amendment was rejected 42 to 50.

    SourcesSenate Roll Call Vote 148, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On the Amendment, Durbin Amdt. No. 1841 as Modified to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Amendment Rejected, 42 yeas to 50 nays, April 19, 2024.
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting YEA on Paul Amendment No. 1829 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment whose stated purpose was to append the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act to the bill. The amendment was rejected 31 to 61, a three-fifths majority being required.

    SourcesSenate Roll Call Vote 144, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On the Amendment, Paul Amdt. No. 1829 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Amendment Rejected, 31 yeas to 61 nays with a three-fifths majority required, April 19, 2024.
    View position & sources
  • EducationStated position

    Cramer committed to passing the PEACE Act to prohibit federal education funding from being used to promote Critical Race Theory and 'divisive concepts.'

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Energy / ClimateStated position

    Cramer committed to legislation (the Real Emergencies Act) to prevent a president from declaring climate change a national emergency.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Abortion / LifeStated position

    Cramer committed to fight for life at all stages and to vote against measures expanding abortion, framing it as a standing promise to his constituents.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Abortion FundingStated position

    Cramer committed to passing the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act to bar federal funds from any entity that performs abortions.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Government Reform / RegulationStated position

    In his maiden Senate speech, Cramer vowed to take on what he called an unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucracy.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (cramer.senate.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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