Press Releases
BOISE, Idaho – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) joined U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) along with a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, to fully fund […]
WASHINGTON – It’s impossible to overstate the importance of small businesses to Idaho’s success. On Friday, May 21st, U.S. Senator Jim Risch and the Idaho Department of Commerce invite Idahoans to take part in the second annual Support Local Gems initiative and support the local businesses that make Idaho thrive. To watch on YouTube, click here. “May 21st is the […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), senior member and former chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, announced the selection of six local businesses to be honored as Idaho Small Businesses of the Month for May 2021. The decision to highlight a small business from each of Idaho’s six geographic regions comes […]
Idahoans are encouraged to support Idaho small businesses on Friday, May 21, 2021 BOISE, Idaho – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch and the Idaho Department of Commerce announced the launch of the second annual Support Local Gems Initiative, which will serve as an all-day event to support Idaho small businesses as they come off a year of significant […]
WASHINGTON– Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and U.S. Representatives Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Jim Hagedorn (R-Minn.) reintroduced the Disaster Assistance for Rural Communities Act, which would allow rural homeowners, renters, and small businesses to more easily access disaster relief in the wake of a natural disaster. Additional cosponsors of the bill […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) led 17 of their Senate colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) requesting the Endless Frontier Act be modified to recognize the leading role the Department of Energy and National Laboratories play […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) released the following statement regarding the recently disclosed ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, a major component of U.S. critical energy infrastructure: “Americans are about to start feeling the fallout from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. A full shutdown of the pipeline that serves 50 million Americans is going […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), both senior members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reintroduced S. 1400, the Protecting Resources On The Electric grid with Cybersecurity Technology (PROTECT) Act, which enhances electric grid security by incentivizing electric utilities to make cybersecurity investments. The bill also establishes a Department of Energy (DOE) grant […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) issued the following statement after President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress: “We continue to make forward progress on ending the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks in large part to the success of Operation Warp Speed, but the United States is facing twin crises: first at the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and U.S. Representatives Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher (all R-Idaho) joined lawmakers from Montana and Wyoming to urge Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to heed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) study demonstrating the full recovery of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) grizzly bear populations […]