Press Releases
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) with U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Chairman Patrick McHenry and 76 of their colleagues wrote U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Andrea Gacki urging the administration to delay the implementation of new reporting requirements […]
WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) introduced the ATF Accountability Act, which would provide transparency to gun owners across America on rules made by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF engages in a secretive classification review process where the agency decides whether a particular firearm is regulated […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, member and former-chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Council Mountain Coffee & Laundromat in Council as a Local Gem. This recognition is part of the fourth annual Support Local Gems All Season Long initiative, which is a public awareness campaign Senator Risch created to encourage Idahoans to support the small businesses that […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) today led a group of senators in sending a letter to Biden administration officials on the need to use prescribed fires to protect communities from the negative impacts of wildfires and increase active forest management. “For decades, western states have faced smoke filled summers […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch and Mike Crapo’s (both R-Idaho) bill to reauthorize the U.S. Forest Service’s Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination Program (SRS) through 2026 has passed out of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Risch and Crapo are joined by Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) in reintroducing the legislation. “I am pleased […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, following the release of the Biden administration’s Columbia River Basin announcement, doubled down in his opposition to dam breaching and reiterated that it is solely Congress that could remove the federal dams in the Columbia-Snake River System. “Congress—and Congress alone—can authorize removal of the dams on the lower Snake River. Bureaucrats, activist litigation, […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Representatives Russ Fulcher and Mike Simpson (all R-Idaho) introduced legislation in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to improve access to local U.S. Postal Services (USPS) post offices. The legislation would require more community input before relocating a post office as well as encourage recommendations […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, member and former-chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Royal Theaters in Idaho Falls as a Local Gem. This recognition is part of the fourth annual Support Local Gems All Season Long initiative, which is a public awareness campaign Senator Risch created to encourage Idahoans to support the small businesses […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and 24 other colleagues in a letter condemning the inaction of the United Nations (UN) regarding Hamas’s widespread sexual violence, including […]