Press Releases
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 […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and U.S. Representative Russ Fulcher (all R-Idaho) celebrated the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s decision to extend hours for the Porthill Port of Entry. CBP’s announcement comes after Risch, Crapo, and Fulcher wrote Executive Assistant Commissioner Pete Flores encouraging CBP to extend hours at Porthill as a […]
WASHINGTON – U.S Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) introduced the Stopping Traffickers and Their Accomplices Act to require abortion providers to file a report with the National Human Trafficking Hotline if there is reasonable suspicion to believe a woman is a victim of human trafficking. “Human traffickers will do everything in their power […]
WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-Louisiana), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and 35 additional Republican colleagues to introduce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s student loan cancelation scheme, which would transfer up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower onto […]