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A bill meant to speed up the development of advanced nuclear reactors is now law. President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act on Friday. The bill, which was sponsored by Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group including Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, directs the U.S. Department of Energy to […]
Bear Knuckles, a family-owned, Blackfoot-based glove company, was named Small Business of the Month for September by the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The award honors small businesses and entrepreneurs across the country. Bear Knuckles will be recognized in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate. Bear Knuckles — owned by Shawn […]
U.S. Senator for Idaho Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced on Wednesday that Bear Knuckles in Blackfoot is the Small Business of the Month for September 2018. Bear Knuckles will be recognized in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate. When informed that Bear Knuckles had been named […]
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, has named SJX Jet Boats, Inc. in Orofino, as the Small Business of the Month for August 2018. SJX Jet Boats will be recognized in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate. “Known as the steelhead fishing capital of the […]
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee chairman, several committee lawmakers and a top Defense Department official on Tuesday said Russia is skirting several critical treaties with the United States to limit its stockpile of missiles and other weapons. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said it is unlikely that Russia will […]
CAPITOL HILL — Russian arms control violations and other malign activities are eroding the confidence and trust required to extend a critical nuclear agreement between Washington and Moscow that expires in 2021, U.S. officials told lawmakers on Tuesday. “Russia continues to violate a series of arms control obligations that undermine the trust of the United […]
September 14 in Idaho is recognized as Missing Persons Day. In 2006, Idaho State Governor James Risch signed and authorized a proclamation to memorialize the day. When a person goes missing or is wanted, they go into the National Crime Information Center’s System, so if they are found in another state, an officer can run […]
Ryan Nelson, general counsel for Melaleuca in Idaho Falls, won narrow approval on an 11-10 party-line vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday for his nomination to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Nelsons nomination now moves to the full Senate for approval; U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch of Idaho […]
U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador. R-Idaho is lauding a House committee s passage of a bill Thursday to add 52 new federal district judgeships, including one in Idaho. Labrador, who introduced a bill to add a new Idaho federal district judge in February of 2017 one month after Idahos 2nd District Rep. Mike Simpson introduced an […]
Bipartisan nuclear research legislation spearheaded by U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch of Idaho and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is headed to the president’s desk, after winning passage in both the Senate and the House. The measure, the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act, authorizes new partnerships between national laboratories and private industry to develop […]