Press Releases

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) to introduce legislation to prohibit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from banning the use of traditional lead ammunition or tackle on public lands unless such action […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), with several lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, wrote the Biden administration formally requesting the withdrawal of a pending rule to eliminate moral exemptions established to protect individuals and entities who object to some or all contraceptives, including those that can […]

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced the MicroCap Small Business Investing Act, legislation, which would break down barriers to capital investment for underrepresented small business owners by diversifying the backgrounds of people applying for the SBA’s MicroCap SBIC license. The bill aims to give smaller businesses […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the Accelerate Long-term Investment Growth Now (ALIGN) Act, which would make permanent a provision in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that allowed businesses to fully expense new investments (machinery, equipment, etc.) in the year of purchase. That provision currently began to phase out […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), John Barrasso (R-Wyo), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the Natural Gas Appliances Standards (Natural GAS) Act of 2023. This legislation will block any rulemaking by the Department of Energy that could have the effect of outlawing the sale of a range of natural gas appliances. Studies have […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) with Senators Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced a bill to prevent the IRS from being used as a political weapon against conservative and ideological non-profit groups. “The IRS should never […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) with 15 of their colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to retain the regulatory definition of habitat within the Endangered Species Act (ESA). By defining habitat, this CRA will provide clarity and transparency to landowners and businesses in Idaho and throughout […]

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 […]