{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/president-trump-signs-north-dakota-delegation-bill-to-repeal-disastrous-biden-era-north-dakota-rmp", "President Trump Signs North Dakota Delegation Bill to Repeal Disastrous, Biden-Era North Dakota RMP", "2025-12-12", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "Kevin Cramer", "C001096", "www.cramer.senate.gov", "cramer", "https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "***Click here for audio.***\n\nBISMARCK, N.D. \u2013 During a ceremony at the White House, President Donald Trump signed a historic resolution to unwind the awful Biden-era Bureau of Land Management\u2019s (BLM) Resource Management Plan (RMP) for North Dakota. The resolution was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by North Dakota U.S. Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) and in the Senate by U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND). This bill initiates the process for BLM to replace the RMP while preventing the bureaucracy from issuing a substantially similar plan in the future.\n\n\u201cThis signing was historic, it reinforces the multiple use mandate the Biden Bureau of Land Management blatantly ignored,\u201d said Cramer. \u201cI mean let\u2019s face it, it\u2019s not a complicated term. Multiple use means multiple use, it doesn\u2019t mean single use, it doesn\u2019t mean a withdrawal of lands from use at all, it means multiple use. Our landowners, our energy producers, our ranchers, our farmers, really everyone who uses public lands understands this and they can celebrate now knowing the plan has been thrown out.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the Trump administration writing a new one that respects the mandate that Congress gives it, that doesn\u2019t just ignore it and do whatever the heck they want,\u201d Cramer continued. \u201cI look forward to working with the Trump administration on writing a new one that does all of that. I also just want to congratulate Congresswoman Fedorchak for taking the lead on this. She brought it to her colleagues in the House, she was persuasive, as always, makes the case and makes the argument. As a freshman member in her very first year serving on the Energy and Commerce Committee, I could not be more honored to be her partner in all of this. This is a big day for North Dakota.\u201d\n\nNorth Dakota Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak with President Donald Trump and North Dakota Senator John Hoeven\n\nThe Federal Land Policy and Management Act instructs the BLM\u2019s management of public lands. RMPs are the plans outlining the agency\u2019s management of its acreage within individual areas. In North Dakota, the BLM is the landlord of 58,500 surface acres and 4.1 million acres of mineral estate. BLM lands are supposed to be managed under a \u201cmultiple use\u201d framework, meaning oil, gas, coal, grazers, and recreationists alike can use the land in a sustainable manner.\n\nThe Biden administration released its final RMP for North Dakota in August 2024, and adopted it in January without incorporating changes the State of North Dakota and its Congressional delegation requested. Instead, the RMP prohibited coal leasing on over four million acres, or nearly 99% of federal coal acreage in the state. It also blocked 213,000 acres, or 44%, of federally owned fluid mineral acreage, reducing state revenues and weakening American energy dominance. Economic data provided by the state of North Dakota estimates the state would have been deprived of $34 million annually in oil and gas royalties and tax revenue if the Biden RMP would have been implemented.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/president-trump-signs-north-dakota-delegation-bill-to-repeal-disastrous-biden-era-north-dakota-rmp"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4221328310668468, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}