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Guest column submitted by U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch In spite of the hyper-partisan climate in our nation’s capital, in a unanimous, bipartisan vote of 100-0, the U.S. Senate recently confirmed Judge David Nye to serve as the next United States District Judge for the District of Idaho. Judge Nye’s overwhelming confirmation is […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Senate this afternoon unanimously confirmed Judge David C. Nye to serve as U.S. District Judge for the District of Idaho. Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch welcomed the Senate’s timely action in confirming the first of President Donald Trump’s U.S. District Judge nominees. “I thank my colleagues for […]
WASHINGTON — Eighteen Republican members of Congress, led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, sent a letter last Friday to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson asking him to rescind the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule. AFFH — an Obama-era HUD regulation proposed and established in 2015 by Carson’s predecessor, Julian Castro — requires […]
You may think the U.S. Senate has bigger fish to fry – uh, like healthcare reform? – but senators now have something new to consider that will be of interest to HR leaders: a bill with bipartisan support that would encourage companies to offer employee stock ownership plans. Introduced July 12 by Sens. Gary Peters […]
From his perch on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is calling for more accountability for companies working with North Korea. With North Korea in the headlines recently as it continues to develop its nuclear weapon program, Rubio teamed up with U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner, R-Col., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Bob […]
By: U.S. Senator Jim Risch, Chairman of Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Small business owners need real regulatory relief. They need an advocate to force government agencies to consider the impact of regulations on their businesses. They need a chance to look up from the massive piles of paperwork required by each of the thousands […]
BOISE – Judge David Nye is Idaho’s new U.S. District Court judge after being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. Nye was first nominated for the role in 2016, nearly two years after former U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge announced his intent to retire. But the full Senate never voted on the nomination […]
David Nye, a state judge from Pocatello, was approved by a 100-0 vote Wednesday in the U.S. Senate to serve as a U.S. district court judge in Idaho. It marks the first approval of a federal judge since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo of […]
POCATELLO — The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Judge David C. Nye of Pocatello as Idaho’s new U.S. District Court Judge on Wednesday. Nye, 58, was first nominated for the position in 2016 by President Barack Obama, nearly two years after former U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge announced his intent to retire. At that time, he […]
The U.S. Senate has just voted 100-0 – unanimously – to confirm the nomination of Judge David Nye to be Idaho’s next U.S. District Court judge, bringing to a close a more than two-year stretch in which Idaho was down to just one active federal district judge. “It is rare to be nominated by presidents […]