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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Idaho Newsletter for Sunday July 09, 2023 ( 6 items )  

Crapo, Lujan Reintroduce Legislation to Strengthen Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-New Mexico) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-New Mexico) and James Moylan (R-Guam) reintroduced bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to compensate individuals exposed to radiation during the Cold War era while working in uranium mines or living downwind from atomic weapons tests. Last  more

Lujan, Crapo, Leger Fernandez Reintroduce Legislation to Strengthen RECA
WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) and James Moylan (R-GU) reintroduced bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to compensate individuals exposed to radiation while working in uranium mines or living downwind from atomic weapons tests. Last year, Senators Lujan and Crap  more

Sen. Crapo: Weekly Column - Independence Day
WASHINGTON, July 4 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following column on July 3, 2023: * * * Independence Day The Fourth of July is the fundamental American holiday. It gives us an opportunity to spend time with loved ones in beautiful places across our great State and nation and celebrate the honor it is to be an American with shared unalienable rights. As joyful as this holiday is, however, we cannot forget its importance nor take our freedoms for granted, as people around our world   more

Senate Committee Ranking Members Risch, Wicker, Rep. McCaul Release Statement on Long-Overdue Transfer of DPICMs to Ukraine, Call for ATACMS, F-16s
WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, along with U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the Biden Administration's decision to   more

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Crapo Issues Remarks at Hearing on Cattle Supply Chains, Deforestation of Amazon
WASHINGTON, July 4 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following remarks at a hearing on June 22 2023, entitled "Cattle Supply Chains and Deforestation of the Amazon": * * * "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. "Over the years, you and I have done a lot of good forest work in our own backyards, particularly with respect to improvements to forest management and wildfire budgeting. "I appreciate the time and effort you and your staff have put in to asse  more

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Risch on Biden Administration After Action Review on Hazardous Withdrawal From Afghanistan
BOISE, Idaho, July 8 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on July 7, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the Biden Administration's After Action Review on its hazardous withdrawal from Afghanistan: "President Biden continues to deflect blame for his hazardous and disastrously unplanned Afghanistan withdr  more