Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) were joined by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) in reintroducing a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the U.S. Forest Service’s Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination Program (SRS) through 2026. “Idaho’s schools and counties rely on SRS funding,” said Risch. “The federal government made a […]

Grrr Act would focus Endangered Species Act resources and correct factual errors

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and U.S. Representative Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), with Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and U.S. Representatives Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), and Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) introduced legislation requiring U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s hours […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch AND Mike Crapo(both R-Idaho) voted in support of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), fulfilling Congress’s constitutional duty to “provide for the common defense.” The FY 2024 NDAA provides both servicemembers and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) civilian workforce with needed pay raises and […]

Announces Plans to Introduce Legislation to Address CBP Failures

WASHINGTON – This week, Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jason Mercier, vice president and director of research for the Mountain States Policy Center, wrote an op-ed in support of the Snake River dams, pointing to the importance of hydropower in the region and the critical role the dams play in Idaho’s economy. Select excerpts from the piece […]

Encourage public-private partnership to remove sawtimber, engage in active forest management

Emphasizes the Need to Fix Hydropower Licensing, Improve Urban Canals WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Water and Power Subcommittee, discussed hydropower and aging water infrastructure legislation critical to Idaho. “Water has allowed us to do everything from transform desert into fertile farmland and urban centers [and also] to […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) joined forces with U.S. Representatives Ashley Hinson (R-IA-02) and Alma Adams (D-NC-12) to announce the introduction of the bipartisan, bicameral Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2023. One out of 175 U.S. births tragically result in stillbirths, accounting for nearly 21,000 […]

WASHINGTON – Idaho’s U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, joined a bicameral group of 134 members of Congress in filing an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al., v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al.  The brief […]