Press Releases

“It is very important for our Idaho communities near federal forests to get this funding. The benefits it will provide in protecting our forests, reducing fire risk to homeowners, and creating jobs, are significant.”

It is very beneficial to have someone of Corey's expertise step into the legislative director position. His vast experience with energy issues, along with his knowledge of the Idaho National Laboratory and Capitol Hill will be invaluable.

We need to have a dependable source of energy for our country that does not emit greenhouse gases. Nuclear energy does that. But we also need a reliable source of enriched uranium to fuel our nuclear plants and the Eagle Rock facility will meet that need.

I am not willing to give up on salmon recovery efforts. This program is working and it must receive funding if we are to continue with habitat improvements for salmon.

Confirmation of a judge, especially to the Supreme Court of the United States, is a major decision. This is a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land and I take this responsibility very seriously.

Idaho has a strong connection with Abraham Lincoln from his involvement in the creation of the Idaho territory to the county named in his honor.

Idahoans worked hard through a collaborative process to put together a roadless plan that made sense for our state. It was a plan crafted by a variety of wildland users and interest groups that built in higher levels of protection for some lands that truly deserved it, and allowed multiple use of other lands where it fit. This is how conflicts in public lands management should be resolved, and not by politics and a 'one size fits all' approach by those in Washington, D.C.

Senator Jim Risch announced today that Mike Roach will be his Natural Resources Director, working out of Boise. Roach had been serving as Regional Director in the Senator's Lewiston office.

It was a great charity event and it was our pleasure to participate. I have to confess that my wife, Vicki, was the creative one, and she deserves the credit for us winning this award. It was just like at home in the kitchen - I had plenty of advice to give, but she ignored it and it turned out great.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are in the middle of long, difficult battles with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda that pose serious political and security issues to their countries, America and the rest of the world.