Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) this week wrote Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona regarding taxpayer dollars funding antisemitic activities on college campuses. The Senator is demanding answers from the Department of Education regarding these practices and the growing safety issues Jewish students and allies of Israel face on these campuses. The Senator has received significant support […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) with Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), and John Boozman (R-Ark.) today introduced the Solving the Border Crisis Act. This bill would secure the southern border by resuming construction of the border wall, strengthening management and enforcement capacities, and upholding the rule of […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) released the following statement about President Biden’s budget: “Idahoans cannot afford higher taxes and more out-of-control spending. This administration already spent well beyond its means, resulting in inflation that hurts Idahoans every day. Thankfully, Congress can correct the president’s error with a budget that reins in spending and targets […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) introduced bipartisan legislation to ban imports of Russian uranium. The bill is the Senate companion to H.R. 1042, which was introduced last month by U.S. Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), chair of the […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) with U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.) Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote a letter to […]
WASHINGTON – Today, on International Women’s Day, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho)—as former Chairman and current member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship—with the Chairman and Ranking Members of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Congressman Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho), and Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) introduced the Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act to fully extend eligibility for the Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) program for federal forest restoration and management projects to Tribes and counties as well as increase opportunities for cross-boundary […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Angus King (I-Maine) and U.S. Representatives Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-Pa.) reintroduced the Future Logging Careers Act. This legislation would allow teenage members of logging families to gain experience in the logging trade under parental supervision so they may carry on the family business. The Future […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led 24 of their Republican colleagues in introducing legislation to close loopholes that allow Title X family planning funds to go to entities that perform abortions, including Planned Parenthood. “The Biden administration will take advantage of every possible loophole to use taxpayer dollars […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) issued the following statement upon the passsing of former Idaho Governor Phil Batt: “Phil Batt was a close personal friend to both Vicki and me and one of my earliest mentors in the State Senate. He was a titan in Idaho politics and cared deeply about our […]