Press Releases
On tree-spiking: “What happens when the saw hits this spike is what happens in a war when a hand grenade goes off.” WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), senior member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a business meeting to consider the nomination of Ms. Tracy Stone-Manning […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) reintroduced their Investing in Main Street Act to increase investment in small businesses by permitting banks to invest up to 15 percent of their capital in Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC). The dramatic increase in capital for the SBIC program would be deployed […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) introduced legislation to reduce the more than $28 trillion of debt held by the general public and curb unjustified spending at the federal level. The Zero Based Budget Act would cut wasteful spending and reduce U.S. debt by requiring government agencies to justify their spending levels every six-years with a zero-based […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) joined Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), along with 22 additional Senate Republican colleagues, in urging President Biden not to revoke Title 42, a critical tool implemented last year to protect public health. Issued by the Centers for Disease Control and enforced by […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) spoke in response to a bombshell letter from the retired special agent in charge of investigating a 1989 tree spiking operation in Clearwater National Forest in Idaho. In the letter, Retired Special Agent Michael Merkley detailed how Tracy Stone-Manning, President Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau […]
Energy Committee Republicans Highlight Nominee’s False & Misleading Statements, Past Ties to Eco-Terrorism in Idaho WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), and all of their Republican committee colleagues sent a letter to President Biden calling on him to withdraw the nomination 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 Emsi Burning Glass in Moscow as the Idaho Small Business of the Month for July 2021. Emsi Burning Glass will be recognized for its contribution to the Moscow community in the Congressional […]
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the U.S. Senate unanimously adopted a Senate Resolution (S.Res.268) introduced by U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo (both R-Idaho) and 14 additional Senate colleagues designating June 2021 as National Dairy Month. The Resolution recognizes the role dairy plays in a healthy diet and the exceptional work of dairy producers as stewards of […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) joined Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) in reintroducing the bipartisan Cyber Sense Act. This legislation would create a voluntary Cyber Sense program at the Department of Energy to test the cybersecurity of products and technologies intended for use in the bulk-power system. “The Colonial Pipeline and […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) joined Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in reintroducing the Lower Costs, More Cures Act (LCMCA) to lower prescription drug prices, bring greater transparency to the prescription drug industry, and encourage American ingenuity in the development of new treatments and cures. “Access to affordable prescription drugs is […]