WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 22, 2024: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), today announced that 10 additional Senators intend to cosponsor their bipartisan Georgian People's Act. Risch and Shaheen's bipartisan bill would hold Georgian government officials and individuals responsible for corr  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and more than half of the Senate Republican Conference announced their intent to introduce the Stand with Israel Act when the Senate and House reconvene in November. The legislation, which is led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), would cut off U.S. funding to United Nations (UN) agencies that   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 26 Senate colleagues announced their intent to introduce the Stand with Israel Act when the Senate and House reconvene in November. This legislation would cut off U.S. funding to United Nations (UN) agencies that expel, downgrade, suspend or otherwise restrict the participation of the State of Isr  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) co-sponsored the bipartisan Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Review of Expensive and Detrimental Overregulation (REDO) Act. The legislation would prevent the FTC from finalizing and implementing a rushed regulation change specific to automotive retailing without first conducting adequate consumer testing and cost-benefit analyses and allowing for public feedbac  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and 26 Senate Republican colleagues will introduce legislation to support Israel's membership status in the United Nations (UN). The Stand with Israel Act would cut off U.S. funding to UN agencies that expel, downgrade, suspend or otherwise restrict Israel's participation in the international organization. The senators will introduce the bill when Congre  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: BOISE, Idaho U.S. Senator Jim Risch called out the Biden-Harris administration for ignoring Idahoans' vehement opposition to the Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project in order to accomplish its woke green agenda. Click here to watch Senator Risch discuss Lava Ridge on KTVB News Channel 7. On Idahoans, his opposition to Lava Ridge: "To say that people in the Magic Valley are not too red hot about [Lava Ridge] is the  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: MADISONVILLE, La. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and colleagues in announcing their intent to introduce the Stand with Israel Act to combat the United Nation's (U.N.) persecution of Israel. The legislation would block any U.S. dollars from going to the U.N. if it downgrades Israel's status in any way, such as preventing Israel from having certain voting powers, access to co  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 257 Democratic members of Congress in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) under consideration by the en banc Ninth Circuit. EMTALA is a federal   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: After the Supreme Court dismissed Idaho v. United States, returning it to the Ninth Circuit Court, 259 Members of Congress ask the Ninth Circuit to affirm that federal law ensures abortion care qualifies as "emergency stabilizing care" under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), and hospitals participating in Medicare must provide "emergency stabilizing treatment" to patients, includi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: After the Supreme Court dismissed Idaho v. United States, returning it to the Ninth Circuit Court, 259 Members of Congress ask the Ninth Circuit to affirm that federal law ensures abortion care qualifies as "emergency stabilizing care" under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), and hospitals participating in Medicare must provide "emergency stabilizing treatment" to patients, including  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), submitted an amicus brief(link is external) to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and La  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez(D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.), and U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) submitted anamicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) under con  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined Senate colleagues in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit defending life-saving reproductive care in two consolidated cases that are threatening the federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency medical treatment, sometimes including abortion care. The anti-choice extremists litigating the two cases, Moyle v. United States and Idaho   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following column: * * * The IRA's Health Care-Lessness The Biden-Harris Administration's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) misdiagnosed the health care access and affordability problem and prescribed bureaucratic, big-government, misguided solutions. Seniors deserve better. Assessing the flaws of the IRA helps us chart a more productive path for congressional action to improve access to cost-effective, quality health care moving forward.  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Oct. 22, 2024: Today, 259 Members of Congress--led by U.S. Senators Schumer, Murray, Wyden, and Durbin, and Representatives Jeffries, Clark, Pallone, Neal, Nadler, DeGette, and Lee--submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2024: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said today he is among the co-leaders of an amicus brief from 259 Members of Congress submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act under consideration by the en banc Ninth Circuit. This federal law known as EMTALA requires   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 22, 2024: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Rick Scott (R  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: Ahead of Georgia's parliamentary elections on October 26,U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) is cosponsoring the Georgian People's Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho). The bipartisan bill would hold accountable Georgian government officials and individuals responsible for corruption, human rights abuses, and efforts to advance the foreign influence la  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: After the Small Business Administration (SBA) claimed it ran out of funds for disaster relief, U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and James Risch (R-Idaho), members of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, demanded answers over the agency's mismanagement of disaster resources. In the letter, the senators highlighted that the SBA failed to notify Con  more