Press Releases
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. […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) released the following statement today on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) announcement to terminate consultation on the Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project given widespread concerns about the project’s impact to the Minidoka National Historic Site. The ACHP’s announcement will require further review of the widely opposed wind […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) made the following statements upon the release of the U.S. Forest Service’s completed Final Environmental Impact Statement and issuing of a Draft Record of Decision authorizing the Stibnite Gold Project. “The Stibnite Project will bolster Idaho’s economy and our national defense. Today’s long awaited […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Representatives Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher today urged the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) to terminate Section 106 consultation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on the Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project. Last month, the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office made a similar decision to forgo […]