Press Releases
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led 41 bicameral Republican colleagues in a letter urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to work with Congress to root out abuses in their administration’s unaccompanied migrant children program and stop the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s cover-up of […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Representative Russ Fulcher today sent a letter to U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Randy Moore demanding an update on the investigation to determine the origin of the Elkhorn Fire. “This investigation, which was originally meant to take only a few weeks, has been ongoing for well […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Representatives Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher today urged the Department of the Interior to adopt the “No-Action Alternative” on the Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project following the termination of Section 106 consultation with both the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and the Advisory Council on […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) released the following statement upon the launch of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest Regional Energy Planning Project. “The last thing Idahoans need is the Biden-Harris administration forcing its extreme mandates on our energy planning, transmission, and infrastructure decisions. This is another thinly veiled attempt to push for breaching the lower […]
WASHINGTON – Today, in the wake of a second assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in just 65 days, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) led 10 colleagues to introduce the Protect Our Presidents Act, which will enhance the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) protection for presidential nominees to the same level currently provided […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today introduced the STRATEGIC Act, legislation to set up the United States and its allies and partners for success in the strategic competition against China. “Despite the significant threat China poses to the United States, the U.S. Congress […]
WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) led their colleagues in calling for additional protective resources to President Donald Trump’s security detail following the second assassination attempt against him in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15th. “It is imperative that the [U.S. Secret Service] detail assigned to […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Anderson’s Body and Glass in American Falls as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for September 2024. Anderson’s Body and Glass will be recognized for its contribution to the Eastern Idaho […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) called on the Biden administration to protect America’s dairy industry and ensure that plant-based imitation products are not equated in upcoming dietary guideline changes. Risch and Baldwin, joined by Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human […]
Introduces Bill to Correct Red Tape in Water Conservation WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee, today spoke on the importance of Western water conservation and introduced a bill to correct the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) red tape and misinterpretation of current water law. […]