Press Releases
WASHINGTON —U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced the Protecting Access to Credit for Small Businesses Act to prohibit the Biden administration from enacting their plan to make the Small Business Administration (SBA) a direct lender, which would force financial institutions like community banks and credit unions – who already provide loans – into competition […]
Highlight damage to the West WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and four other Senate Western Caucus members sent a letter to President Joe Biden demanding he withdraw Julie Su’s nomination to be Secretary of Labor. The letter cites how Su, who has been serving as […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Angus King (I-Maine), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) wrote U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth detailing the need for the Department of Defense […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) with Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) today wrote U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Martha Williams urging the agency to abandon its problematic and broad use of distinct population segments in Endangered Species Act listings. By artificially separating wildlife populations, the agency has wasted limited conservation resources and made it nearly impossible to […]
WASHINGTON —U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today commended the settlement agreement between the State of Idaho and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding the listing of grizzly bears in the lower-48 states. He also called on Congress to pass his legislation—the Grizzly Bear Review and Resource Restart (Grrr) Act—to build on this agreement by codifying the […]
Responds to BLM 2024 conservation plan WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator Jim Risch released the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management released its greater sage-grouse conservation plans. “For over a decade, Idaho has been dedicated to developing a collaborative, science-based, and locally-supported management plan for greater sage-grouse. Meanwhile, changing methodologies and federal bureaucrats’ thinly veiled attempts […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today urged the Biden administration’s U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to withdraw its proposed changes to the National Apprenticeship System. The partisan rule—entitled “the National Apprenticeship System Enhancements”–would impose significant regulatory burdens on apprenticeship programs nationwide. It introduces a rigid mandate for […]
WASHINGTON —U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), all members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Geothermal Energy Optimization (GEO) Act to accelerate the adoption of geothermal energy nationwide. Next-generation geothermal technologies offer several unique advantages that distinguish it from […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in an effort to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from enforcing a new rule tightening fine particulate matter (PM2.5) standards, which would further halt the growth of America’s manufacturing industry. Senator McConnell, along with 45 Senate Republicans, introduced a […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Tracy General Store in Almo as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for March 2024. The Tracy General Store will be recognized for its contribution to the Southern Idaho community in […]