Press Releases

Administration Set to Deliberately Pause U.S. LNG Export Permitting to Court Radical Enviornmental Voters WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) led 24 Republican colleagues in blasting the Biden administration’s executive order to re-evaluate the criteria to approve permits for liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects in order to pacify the […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) led a bicameral group of 121 colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Deputy Administrator Sophie Shulman calling for the withdrawal of the Biden administration’s proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for passenger cars and […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today announced 44 nominations to the United States service academies for the upcoming 2024- 2025 school year. The nominees were selected from dozens of applicants. The four academies will now consider these Idahoans for final selection. “These 44 Idahoans are exemplary students who are committed to selflessly serving our nation and defending our freedoms,”  said Risch. “Their […]

Protect American’s Congressional Representation WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) introduced legislation to ensure the census only counts legal citizens for Congressional districts and the Electoral College map, which determines presidential elections. The current method of counting illegal immigrants for purposes of representation serves as a perverse incentive for open borders by […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch, Mike Crapo, and U.S. Representative Russ Fulcher today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan expressing concerns regarding the EPA’s failure to obtain community input on the potential listing of Idaho’s Cinnabar Mine as a Superfund site. The EPA is seeking a Superfund site designation for the Cinnabar Mine, […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in the case Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. In Trump v. Anderson, the U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether former President Donald Trump should remain on the ballot in the State of Colorado, after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled he should […]

Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act Bound for Full Senate Approval WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Martin Heinrich’s (D-N.M.) legislation, the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, today passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee with overwhelming support. This legislation would make it easier for “Good Samaritans,” such as state […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today wrote U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to investigate the pro-Hamas criminals who disgracefully and illegally vandalized the Los Angeles National Cemetery, where more than 80,000 veterans are buried. The words “INTIFADA” and “FREE GAZA” were found spray-painted on the grounds […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Collet’s Pub in Firth as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for January 2024. Collet’s Pub will be recognized for its contribution to the Eastern Idaho community in the Congressional Record of […]