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Out of the ashes of another record-breaking wildfire season across the West, Oregon lawmakers are calling for changes in the way national forests are managed and how the government pays for fighting increasingly large, destructive fires. Rep. Greg Walden, the state’s lone Republican member of Congress, visited Eastern Oregon last week where he touted the […]
BOISE, ID – The national cost of fighting wildfires is quickly approaching the $2.4 billion mark for 2017. This tops the previous record set in 2015 of $2.1 billion. Western lawmakers, including Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, met with representatives from the U.S. Forest Service and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Tuesday to discuss the devastation across the […]
Western senators, led by Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo and Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, are launching a full-court press to get a fix for the nation’s wildfire funding system through Congress now, while the nation is still gasping from a record fire season and coping with disasters from Texas to Florida to Puerto Rico. “We have […]
Y’ALL READY FOR THIS? Alabama voters head to the polls today to pick between Sen. Luther Strange and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore (or “Ray Moore” as President Trump repeatedly called himMonday). The election is about much more than who will represent Republicans in the general election in December. Trump and Senate Majority Leader […]
Bart M. Davis has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the District of Idaho. Davis was nominated by President Donald J. Trump on July 20, 2017, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Sept.14. He took the oath of office from Ninth Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith. “I am […]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) today is commending U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) introduction of S.1854, the Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act of 2017, which will strengthen the criminal penalties for thefts of firearms from retailers and impose mandatory minimum sentences. “Thefts from federally licensed firearms retailers represent particularly brazen offenses that hold potential […]
Out of the ashes of another record-breaking wildfire season across the West, Oregon lawmakers are calling for changes in the way national forests are managed and how the government pays for fighting increasingly large, destructive fires. Rep. Greg Walden, the state’s lone Republican member of Congress, visited Eastern Oregon last week where he touted the […]