Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.) and 16 colleagues in calling a new U.S. Postal Service (USPS) pilot program a threat to mail delivery and a misguided attempt to federalize financial services. In a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the Senators question the USPS’s authority to […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and 40 additional colleagues in sending a letter to the heads of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to request immediate action to transition federal workers […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) celebrated the Senate’s passage of a Bipartisan Senate Resolution to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of wildland firefighters and first responders. The Resolution, S. Res. 436, was introduced by Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Republican colleagues in introducing an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 to block President Biden’s reported plan to spend upwards of $1 billion to provide $450,000 per person in taxpayer money for settlements for illegal immigrants.    “The Biden administration’s […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) in sending a letter to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water and Wildlife Chair Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) calling for a congressional […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and 38 of their Senate Republican colleagues to formally disapprove and nullify President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on private employees under the Congressional Review Act: the official process for Congress to overturn an executive branch rule. “The egregious federal overreach […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) have joined over two dozen Republican colleagues to introduce a resolution supporting parents’ rights to be fully and actively involved in the education of their children. The resolution specifically denounces restricting parental involvement in their children’s education and demands Attorney General Merrick Garland rescind the Department of […]

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 Florence’s Exquisite Chocolates in Rexburg as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for November 2021. Florence’s Exquisite Chocolates will be recognized for its contribution to the Rexburg community in the Congressional […]

WASHINGTON –  At the urging of the Idaho Congressional Delegation, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today approved the Idaho Hispanic Foundation (IHF) for a Community Navigator Pilot Program grant. This grant will enable the IHF, in concert with the Idaho Women’s Business Center, to support entrepreneurial activities in traditionally underserved areas of Idaho. “Idaho’s small businesses […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) in urging the Pentagon to take immediate action to step up suicide prevention efforts with the introduction of the Save Our Servicemembers (S.O.S.) Act, which directs the Pentagon to evaluate the effectiveness of their suicide prevention […]