Press Releases
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) voted to support the Energy Permitting Reform Act which passed in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. “The United States, and particularly Idaho, is well equipped with the natural resources and critical minerals to power our every day needs. For far too long, these resources have been tied up behind red tape and […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Martin Heinrich’s (R-N.M.) legislation, the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, today passed the Senate unanimously. This legislation would make it easier for “Good Samaritans,” such as state agencies, local governments, nonprofits, and other groups, to clean up abandoned hardrock mines. The bill has broad support with 41 […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach following the vulgar depiction of the Last Supper that took place during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. “We write in response to the vulgar mockery of the Christian faith on […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released a report entitled One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Review of U.S.-Europe Cooperation on China. This report is a follow-up to Risch’s 2020 report in which he laid out a number of key areas where the United States should specifically collaborate with […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) led 11 colleagues in introducing the Countering Hate Against Israel by Federal Contractors Act, which would prohibit the federal government from contracting with entities who boycott the State of Israel. Idaho and 36 other states have passed laws or regulations opposing the boycott, divestment, or sanction (BDS) of Israel. “Antisemitism has no […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today sent a letter to U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. demanding answers to the agency’s failure to prevent an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump despite knowledge of the perpetrator’s suspicious and threatening behavior. “When questioned about this threat to President Trump and the Secret Service’s […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Millhollow in Rexburg as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for July 2024. Millhollow will be recognized for its contribution to Idaho in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate. “In 1982, […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation to prevent the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) electronic public comment system from being sabotaged by foreign adversaries and Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots. Currently, the federal government’s online comment system allows comments from individuals, organizations, or anonymous users, with no safeguards to prevent […]
WASHINGTON— U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) led Senate colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack expressing concern about the potential for potato wart to spread from potato imports originating on Canada’s Prince Edward Island (PEI) to U.S. farms and production facilities and urging the implementation of additional […]
Several recent reports reveal non-citizens registering to vote amid record number of illegal border crossings ?WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) led their colleagues in demanding answers from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) efforts to prevent aliens from registering to vote in […]