Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Renewing their push to protect U.S. energy infrastructure from potential cyberattacks, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Angus King (I-Maine), both members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today reintroduced the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act.The legislation would defend the U.S. energy grid by partnering with industry to […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. —President Trump signed into law S.512, the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act, or NEIMA.  Championed by Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, the legislation will make needed reforms to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and require the commission to establish a licensing framework for next-generation advanced reactors.   “The research being […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-ID), Rob Portman (R-OH), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Steve Daines (R-MT), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Enzi (R-WY), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) today introduced legislation – the End Government Shutdowns Act – that will permanently prevent the federal government from shutting down, ensuring that […]

Washington, D.C. – Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have introduced legislation, S.103, 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 […]

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) today was elected chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the 116 th Congress. Notably, Risch is the third Idahoan to serve as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, following William Borah’s tenure from 1925-1933 and Frank Church’s two year term from 1979-1980.  “I am glad to have the […]

Washington, D.C. – Senate leaders from Oregon and Idaho are joining together in a long-term reform of the Secure Rural Schools Program.  The legislation, introduced today by U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and co-sponsored by U.S Senators Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, provides certainty for rural counties to ensure […]

Washington, D.C. – Idaho’s U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo today applauded the Trump Administration’s move to relieve Idaho’s farmers and ranchers of the regulatory burden created by Waters of the United States (WOTUS), an overreaching Obama Administration rule that defined all bodies of water, including ephemeral streams created by rainfall, as subject to […]

WASHINGTON – Idaho’s agricultural producers will have streamlined access to growing foreign markets thanks to the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, known simply as the Farm Bill.  Supported by Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch the Farm Bill also includes provisions that provide resources to collaborative forest management and support for […]

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) made the following statement on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty: “I support the declaration that the Russian Federation is in “material breach” of the INF Treaty, and I am encouraged that all of our NATO allies recognize Russia’s violations. The Russians have violated this Treaty for […]

Boise, ID – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) made the following statement: “The world has lost a great and decent man. From his service as a Naval pilot during WWII to his successful tenure as President of the United States, George H.W. Bush was a faithful servant of the people for so much of his […]