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Citing the stress on many rural county budgets, Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch joined 78 of their colleagues in sending a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calling on it to provide funding for the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program in the President’s upcoming budget request that will […]
Citing the stress on many rural county budgets, Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch joined 78 of their colleagues in sending a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calling on it to provide funding for the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program in the President’s upcoming budget request that will […]
Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have signed on to another effort to boost funding for schools in timber country. The Idaho Republicans joined 23 of their Senate colleagues and 53 House members in a bipartisan support of the federal Secure Rural Schools program. The program, designed to offset declining timber revenues, was worth about […]
An investigation is needed into the activities of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, an Idaho Republican and two Washington Democrats in the U.S. Senate agree. There may be some debate coming, however, on how the investigation is conducted. Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said an already pending investigation […]
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Idaho Sen. Jim Risch told the PBS Newshour Tuesday that the Senate’s investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election would expand to look at ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with the Russian ambassador in December. But he declined to say whether Senate Intelligence Committee would look into whether President Trump had […]
After this week’s resignation of retired General Mike Flynn as President Trump’s National Security Adviser, Democrats on Capitol Hill called for an investigation. Idaho Sen. Jim Risch sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which investigates whether intelligence officials are following the law. Tuesday, it became clear that President Trump knew of Flynn’s conversation with the […]
WASHINGTON – Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have introduced legislation to establish an additional federal district judgeship in Idaho for the first time in more than sixty years. Idaho is one of only three states (North Dakota and Vermont are the others) with only two authorized judge seats for the entire state. In […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, R-Idaho, introduced the Greater Sage-Grouse Protection and Recovery Act of 2017, legislation allowing states to implement their own specific conservation and management plans to protect greater sage-grouse populations and their habitats, in lieu of federal management. Original cosponsors of the bill include U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Dean Heller, […]
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) has introduced a bill to give states more responsibility to manage conservation of the greater sage grouse. It comes as GOP control of Congress and the executive branch begin to shift western land management policy. In 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided not to list the sage grouse under […]