Press Releases
BOISE, Idaho – Today, U.S. Senator for Idaho Jim Risch and the Idaho Department of Commerce announced the creation of “Support Local Gems,” which will serve as an all-day event to support Idaho small businesses whose operations have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. On Friday, April 24th, 2020, Idahoans are invited to Support Local […]
BOISE, Idaho – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urging the swift distribution of education assistance funds in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to Idaho’s colleges and universities. “As you know, students, teachers, parents and faculty of America’s higher education institutions are […]
BOISE, Idaho – Idaho’s congressional delegation today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue calling for special attention to Idaho’s agricultural industry, which is experiencing great economic disruption due to COVID-19. Idaho is home to 25,000 farms and 185 commodities, many of which are seeing severe impacts to the farm, processing, and […]
BOISE, Idaho – Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that Idaho’s U.S. Senators, Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, will serve with a bipartisan group of congressional colleagues on the White House’s Opening Up America Again Congressional Group. The congressional group, in consultation with America’s governors and the administration, will work to develop guidelines on re-opening the economy […]
BOISE, Idaho – Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) led a letter with 14 of his Republican Senate colleagues to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue calling on the department to extend assistance to the dairy industry, which has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As large swaths of the U.S. economy have […]
BOISE, Idaho – Idaho’s congressional delegation today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Dan Brouillette encouraging further action by DOE to remove spent nuclear fuel from the Idaho National Lab (INL) consistent with the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement. The delegation stressed that while the 1995 Settlement Agreement deadline to remove spent nuclear fuel from […]
WASHINGTON — Idaho Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo along with Congressmen Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher joined a bipartisan, bicameral letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting that he provide immediate assistance to cattle producers by using the resources provided in the recently enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stabilization (CARES) […]
Risch and Crapo urge the Trump administration to provide immediate financial assistance to rural health care providers amid COVID-19 pandemic WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators for Idaho Jim Risch and Mike Crapo sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar urging the prioritization of rural hospitals and clinics. The letter, […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) issued the following statement upon President Trump signing the CARES Act to battle COVID-19 into law: “I thank President Trump for signing the CARES Act into law. This has been a thoroughly bipartisan effort, with the Senate passing this legislation by a vote of 96-0, the House agreeing to […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) released the following statement upon voting in favor of the CARES Act, which will deliver rapid relief to the millions of Americans who are suffering as a direct or indirect result of the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, COVID-19: “No one likes to spend this amount of money, […]