Press Releases
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today reiterated the need for American leadership in nuclear energy during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, where Idaho National Laboratory Director Dr. John Wagner testified. Click here to watch. “Idaho is home to the Idaho National Lab, which is the flagship laboratory for nuclear energy and the birthplace of nuclear energy,” said Risch. “ . . . We […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, member and former-chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of White Cross Pharmacy, which has locations in Priest River, Sandpoint, Oldtown, and Spirit Lake, 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 […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and 15 of their colleagues introduced the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act. This legislation protects child welfare providers from being discriminated against for acting in accordance with their deeply held religious beliefs and prohibits federal, state, and local government agencies that receive federal adoption assistance funding from discriminating against […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch, member and former-chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Vickers Western Store in Pocatello 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 […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch with several Republican Senators is raising alarm bells with U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Granholm regarding a troubling report on the state of the counterintelligence enterprise at the Department, and questioning whether this report played a role in the reassignment of Steven Black. Black was reassigned to a new position in […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) today sent a letter to President Biden voicing severe concerns regarding the administration’s efforts to breach the lower Snake River dams. The effort, outlined in September in the “Memorandum on Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation to make it easier for ranchers to make range improvements on federal land. The Ranching Without Red Tape Act streamlines the permitting process and ensures a timelier response from federal agencies for America’s ranchers. Under current law, ranchers who hold a grazing permit on federal lands must renegotiate their permit to make range […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and U.S. Representative Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho) filed an amicus brief in opposition to the Biden Administration’s efforts to increase access to chemical abortions. The brief encourages the U.S. Supreme Court to consider initial “approval irregularities” by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in its 2000 approval of chemical abortion drugs. “As […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and 43 other Senators in a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce Gina Raimondo raising questions over the decision to pause for 90 days the issuance of export licenses for firearms, ammunition and certain accessories to most […]