My goal on the committee is to improve the nation’s infrastructure by getting ... the Water Resources Development Act done on time
Get the Water Resources Development Act done on time.
Occurrences
Evidence
"My goal on the committee is to improve the nation’s infrastructure by getting the next highway bill and the Water Resources Development Act done on time"
"WRDA 2022 was enacted in December 2022" and "The President signed S. 4367 into law on January 4, 2025 (P.L. 118-272)."
Latest Action: 01/04/2025 Became Public Law No: 118-272.
On Wednesday, February 25, 2026, the Senate EPW Committee held a hearing to examine WRDA 2026 and Army Corps projects, programs and priorities.
Cramer said, 'we are working on the WRDA bill' and described using the hearing to secure needed authorities and project requests for WRDA 2026.
The committee says it is still gathering information and input from Members of Congress to develop and pass WRDA later this Congress. The page also says the most recent WRDA was signed into law on January 4, 2025, and lists only December 17, 2025 and February 24, 2026 as WRDA-related committee activity.
The Senate EPW Committee held a February 25, 2026 hearing on WRDA 2026 and Army Corps projects, programs, and priorities. That is concrete legislative work toward the bill, but it is not enactment or final passage.
The committee says it is gathering information and input from Members of Congress to develop and pass a Water Resources Development Act later this Congress, and it states that the most recent WRDA, the Water Resources Development Act of 2024, was signed into law by President Biden on January 4, 2025.
On February 25, 2026, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing to examine WRDA 2026 and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, programs and priorities.
Assessments
Cramer's January 28, 2025 statement was about getting the next Water Resources Development Act done on time. Because WRDA 2024 was already signed into law on January 4, 2025, the relevant promised outcome is WRDA 2026, not the already completed 2024 bill. The evidence shows serious committee work on WRDA 2026, including a February 25, 2026 Senate EPW hearing and Cramer's own statement that 'we are working on the WRDA bill,' which supports giving effort credit. But the record provided does not show final passage or enactment of WRDA 2026 by the evaluation date, so the promise cannot yet be scored as delivered or failed; it remains unresolved.
WRDA 2024 became Public Law No. 118-272 on January 4, 2025, which matches the expected on-time enactment of the next Water Resources Development Act during Cramer’s Senate service. Later WRDA 2026 committee work does not change that the promised bill was already completed on schedule.
Cramer’s January 28, 2025 promise referred prospectively to getting the next Water Resources Development Act done on time. WRDA 2024 had already become law on January 4, 2025, so it should not be credited as fulfilling this later promise. The available 2026 evidence shows he was actively using his EPW role to advance WRDA 2026 through hearings and project authorities, but there is no evidence in the payload that WRDA 2026 has been enacted yet. Because the expected biennial WRDA window had not clearly expired as of May 21, 2026, the outcome remains unresolved rather than failed.
Cramer's quoted promise was made on January 28, 2025, after WRDA 2024 had already become law on January 4, 2025. The relevant promised outcome is therefore the next biennial WRDA cycle, most likely WRDA 2026. Because that cycle is still in progress as of the current federal term and the provided evidence only proves prior WRDA enactments before the promise, the promise cannot yet be scored as delivered or failed. Prior on-time WRDA enactments during Cramer's Senate service provide context but do not fulfill a forward-looking 2025 commitment.