BOISE, Idaho, April 14 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on April 11 on the 1st anniversary of the removal of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from power and the country's ongoing transition: "One year ago today, the removal of President Omar al-Bashir from power signified a crucial milestone for the Sudanese people as they sought to reclaim their country from a ruthless military regime. "Sudan has undergone tremend  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on April 15: Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) urged Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to address the mental health of servicemembers during social distancing. "We write today to encourage you to also reflect on the unintended consequences that social distancing me  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined a letter led by U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and supported by 13 additional 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. United States dairy producers across the country have not been immune to the s  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, sent two letters to the U.S. Department of Treasury and Federal Reserve Board of Governors on provisions under Title IV of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which provides $500 billion in emergency relief in order to stabilize the   more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) announced that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo will lead and coordinate the Senate's oversight of the historic Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). As Banking Committee Chairman, Crapo played a critical role in shaping many of the provisions of the CARES Act designed to provide significant economic support to severely di  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 18 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Idaho's congressional delegation 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 supply chain levels. With many of Idaho's commoditi  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following column: Guest column submitted by U.S. Senator Mike Crapo Congress and the Trump Administration have enacted three phases of legislation providing resources to support the fight against the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. Most recently, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed and President Trump signed into law Phase 3 of emergency coronavirus response legislation, the bipartisan Coronavi  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging their departments to issue regulations as soon as possible confirming that U.S.  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 15 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on April 14: 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 shuttered in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak, so too have long-e  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 18 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Idaho's congressional delegation 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 supply chain levels. With many of Idaho's commodit  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) joined Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging their departments to issue regulations as soon as possible confirming  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Idaho's U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch joined a bipartisan letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to ensure that as HHS sets guidelines for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF), they do not overlook the providers within nursing homes, skilled nursing centers, senior living communities, independent living, assisted living, memory care, and  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: President Donald J. Trump announced that Idaho's U.S. Senators, Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, 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 in order to begin recovering from the econom  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, ranking Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on April 13: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in announcing a Senate Resolution commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre. Eighty years after 22,000 Polish soldiers and civilians w  more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in announcing a Senate Resolution commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre. Eighty years after 22,000 Polish soldiers and civilians were executed by Soviet forces, the bipartisan resolution honors their lives and  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 17 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: 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 in order to begin recovering from the econo  more

BOISE, Idaho, April 14 -- Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following news release on April 13: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-chair of the U.S. Senate Poland Caucus, Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), today announced a Senate resolution commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Katyn Massacre. Eighty years af  more