Press Releases
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Angus King (I-Maine) and U.S. Congressmen Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) led 30 of their Congressional colleagues in potato-producing states in a bipartisan, bicameral letter calling on the USDA to press its counter-agency in Mexico to honor and expedite the U.S.-Mexico trade deal restoring U.S. fresh potato exports to […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), along with their colleagues from the Pacific Northwest, demanded answers from ten federal agencies involved in the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)’s exploration of plans to breach the Lower Snake River dams. The series of letters press CEQ for answers […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined 20 colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas raising concerns about recent crimes committed by individuals who crossed into the United States illegally under President Biden’s open-border policies. The letter demands answers about the impact of the […]
WASHINGTON – Legislative text, S. 3706, authored by U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho), to fix a technical error in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and preserve rural counties’ Secure Rural Schools (SRS) payment allocations is now headed to the President’s desk for signature following passage in both the U.S. Senate […]
WASHINGTON – After President Biden reiterated in his State of the Union address his plans to ask Congress for additional COVID-19 funding, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and 33 additional Republican colleagues are asking the President for a thorough accounting of how the government has spent the nearly $6 trillion in taxpayer […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch, senior member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of Valor K9 Academy in Horseshoe Bend as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for March 2022. Valor K9 Academy will be recognized for its contribution to Idaho in the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) issued the following statement after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress: “From gas to groceries, the price of everything is skyrocketing after Democrats’ spending binge. Illegal migrants are overwhelming our sovereign border by the millions. The Administration’s historic failures in Afghanistan and […]
BOISE, Idaho – Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today made the following statement regarding a path forward in response to Vladimir Putin’s declaration of war against Ukraine: “Anyone who is surprised by Putin’s deadly attack on a sovereign nation has not been paying attention. These are the […]
BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement regarding the Russian invasion into Ukraine: “Today’s invasion of Ukraine by Russia is a premeditated and flagrant act of war. Despite committed efforts to find a diplomatic solution, Putin has violated the border of a […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and nine of their Senate Republican colleagues sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about the now outstanding Keystone XL Pipeline jobs loss report, which was due to Congress on Sunday, February 13th, 2022. “At the time of its closure, the Keystone XL Pipeline […]