Press Releases
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today commended the Supreme Court’s final ruling on President Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” scheme, which would transfer up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrow onto taxpayers. The estimated cost is $400 billion. “The Biden administration attempted to redistribute student debt in a manner that […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) with 30 fellow Republican Senators sent a letter to President Biden calling for the withdrawal of Julie Su’s nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Labor. “Her track record and unwillingness to provide clarity to her past positions and the actions she […]