Press Releases
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 […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) released the following statement after voting against another Continuing Resolution: “We absolutely stand against shutting down the federal government, but we also oppose continually kicking the can down the road on government funding and allowing Democrats’ spending levels to continue for another month—let alone two,” said Risch and […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today voted to overturn President Biden’s reckless income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of bachelor’s degree student loan borrowers not having to pay back the principal on their loans. This will cost taxpayers as much as $559 billion —likely the most expensive […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation today to help farmers fight through trade barriers and sell more fruits, vegetables, and other specialty crops in foreign markets. The Specialty Crops Reporting on Opportunities and Promotion Act (Specialty CROP Act) responds to continued high tariffs, burdensome labeling requirements, and other trade barriers that […]