Press Releases
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) joined a bipartisan group in introducing the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act of 2023. “Advanced nuclear energy presents boundless potential, and the ADVANCE Act will make the kind of clean and reliable nuclear power being developed at the Idaho National Lab available […]
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, (both R-Idaho) joined Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), Ranking Member of the Finance Committee Subcommittee on Taxation and Internal Revenue Service Oversight, to reintroduce legislation to permanently repeal the federal estate tax, more commonly known as the death tax. The Death […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) today reintroduced the Security and Oversight of International Landholdings (SOIL) Act in order to provide oversight and transparency of purchases of U.S. agricultural land that threaten national security. “While there’s no question America has some of the best farmland in the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) applauded the Senate passage of a measure that would end the COVID national emergency declaration. “The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and it is well past time for the national emergency declaration surrounding the pandemic to end. The passage of this joint resolution should send a strong […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, bipartisan legislation to crack down on and schedule the highly dangerous sedative causing fatal overdoses nationwide. Xylazine, also known as “tranq” or tranquilizer is an easily accessible veterinary tranquilizer being used as a […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo’s (both R-Idaho) Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution today passed the Senate. The CRA challenged the Biden administration’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, which grossly expands federal regulatory authority over water. “Today’s vote is a decisive and bipartisan movement away from big government. Idaho has been managing […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch, Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) announced the introduction of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Standardization and Accountability of Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) Act. This measure would freeze the VA rollout of the EHRM program until certain improvements have been made. “Our nation’s veterans have […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo, (R-Idaho), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) introduced the bipartisan CURD (Codifying Useful Regulatory Definitions) Act to help better inform consumers’ cheese purchasing decisions. The CURD Act would codify a formal definition of “natural cheese,” a term commonly used on food packaging that currently lacks an official definition. Under the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today introduced the FAST Fix Act to create greater opportunities for small businesses in underserved states, like Idaho, to gain access to Small Business Innovation Research […]