BOISE, Idaho, July 15 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on July 14: U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order ending U.S. preferential treatment for Hong Kong, which means that the United States will treat Hong Kong in the same manner economically as the People's Republic of China, the Unit  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 15 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the United Kingdom announced it would ban Huawei purchases by the end of 2020 and remove all existing Huawei equipment from its telecommunications networks by 2027: "I am relieved to hear that the United Kingdom has initiated a plan to remove Huawei products from its communications systems. "I have long been concerned about the national security risks pose  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Rep. Russ Fulcher announced he will be hosting the 2020 Congressional App Challenge (CAC) for high school and middle school students in Idaho's First District. The CAC accepts computer programs (or apps) written in any programming language and built for any platform (desktop/PC, web, mobile, raspberry Pi, etc.). Students of all skill levels are encouraged to participate- including students with no prior codin  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following joint statement with Rep. Eliot Engel, D-New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Sens. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the Trump administration's decision to clarify the U.S. position on the South China Sea: "We fully support the administratio  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) released the following statements after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released its final rule updating regulations implemented under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). In June 2019, Risch, Barrasso, Cramer, and Daines introduced the UPDATE PURPA Act ( S. 1760).  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following joint statement with Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, on July 10 in reaction to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's effort to convert the Hagia Museum of Istanbul from a world-famous cultural site into a mosque: "Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey is a place of deep spiritual significance for people of diverse backgrounds from around the world. "For more than three quarters of a century, Turkish policy maintained this   more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a bipartisan letter to U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette encouraging him to engage with developers and providers of bulk power system equipment throughout the agency's efforts to protect the security and  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 14 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following joint statement with Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Reps. Eliot Engel, D-New York, and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the Trump administration's decision to clarify the U.S. position on the South China Sea: "We fully support the administration's d  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following column: * A 2016 report from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicates that more than four in five American Indian and Alaska Native women and men experience violence in their lifetimes; * American Indian and Alaska Native women are also two times more likely than other groups to experience rape or sexual assault; and * They are two and a half times more likely to experience violent crimes in their lifetimes. While re  more