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Washington (CNN) Idaho’s GOP Sen. Jim Risch said on Tuesday the US would not make a nuclear agreement with North Korea without a verification regime. “We are going to have verification, or we’re not going to have a deal,” Risch said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” Following his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong […]
WASHINGTON – Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Monday that the 2018 Farm Bill proposed by the Senate doubles the size of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program and extends it through 2023. This critical program, which helps fund collaborative and community-based forest management, has a proven track record of improving forest health, reducing wildfire […]
Idaho Senator Jim Risch is praising the Trump Administration’s first steps in attempting to disarm North Korea’s nuclear weapons stockpile. President Donald Trump promised to suspend military exercises with South Korea when he met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore this week. In return, North Korea says it will work towards the denuclearization […]
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – An Idaho senator’s attention is fixed on history this week. As President Donald Trump and the North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un meet in Singapore for a summit, Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) says the duo can make strides toward world peace. Risch is the chairman of the Senate National Security Working Group […]
“It was not easy to get here,” Kim Jong Un said shortly after meeting Donald Trump on Tuesday morning in Singapore. This, after the ravages of the Korean War, decades of violent flare-ups in a conflict that never really ended, 25 years of failed nuclear negotiations, and many months of Trump and Kim threatening each […]
Capitol Hill lawmakers are scrambling to prepare for the prospect that the historic summit between President Trumpand Kim Jong-un will set in motion a much longer diplomatic process fraught with tense follow-on negotiations and potentially delicate nuclear inspections. Congressional sources say there’s bipartisan support for giving Mr. Trump space to further the dialogue with Pyongyang, but that many lawmakers […]
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – An Idaho senator’s attention is fixed on history this week. As President Donald Trump and the North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un meet in Singapore for a summit, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, says the duo can make strides toward world peace. Risch is the chairman of the Senate National Security Working Group […]
Washington (CNN)The White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have agreed that representatives from a Senate working group will attend any future negotiations with North Korea that come out of the summit, Sen. Jim Risch said Monday. President Donald Trump is in Singapore for a highly-anticipated meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. […]
A group of U.S. senators is backing the Timber Innovation Act, which will provide research and development for mass timber products such as cross-laminated timber. The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry is including provisions in its latest release of the 2018 Farm Bill to support research and development of mass timber products used […]
Idaho U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo spoke with U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday and learned some good news: Idaho is on the short list to get a $90 million federal grant to widen Interstate 84 in Nampa. Idaho’s GOP delegation — Crapo, Sen. Jim Risch and Reps. Mike Simpson and Raul Labrador — jointly […]