Press Releases

The Building Chips in America Act passed the Senate in July as part of the NDAA

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources, led 13 Republican colleagues in opposing a carbon tax. The resolution highlights the negative impacts of a carbon tax, such as discouraging domestic manufacturing and energy production, more jobs and businesses moving overseas, and lower economic growth. […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch AND Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), Ranking Member and Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, in a resolution that recognizes October 2023 as National Women’s Small Business Month and celebrates the contributions of female entrepreneurs.  The Senate passed the […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch with Senator Mike Crapo, Congressman Mike Simpson, and Congressman Russ Fulcher (all R-Idaho) today introduced the Don’t Develop Obstructive Infrastructure on our Terrain (Don’t DO IT) Act. The Don’t DO IT Act would require the Secretary of the Interior deny any wind or solar energy project proposed on public land that […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) today commended the American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center on its Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) designation. The Inland Northwest’s American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center has been selected as a Tech Hub as a result of Risch’s legislation, the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), members of the Senate Western Caucus, led their colleagues in a letter to Senate leadership urging the continued Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing prohibition for the greater sage-grouse. “Each of the eleven western states which hold sage-grouse habitat have adopted their own collaborative, science-based conservation plans, […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Representatives Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) today to introduce bicameral legislation to improve transparency of the Legacy Road and Trail Remediation (LRTR) Program. This legislation requires the U.S. Forest Service to publish annually, for each region, a list of projects eligible […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) introduced the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act to counter the Biden Administration’s radical environmental agenda and executive overreach by preventing the implementation of a proposed rule and other regulations that seek to limit consumer vehicle choice. “The Biden administration […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led a group of Senate Republicans in a press conference in support of Israel. On Congress’ unwavering support for Israel: “We’re going to aid Israel. We’re all in with Israel. You heard what was said in this room about […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Angus King (I-Maine), co-chairs of the Senate Working Forests Caucus, today introduced legislation to improve forest industry employment and participation through a grant program aimed at rural and underserved communities. The Jobs in the Woods Act would support developmental programs designed to better equip and train the forest products […]