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James Elroy "Jim" Risch (born May 3, 1943) is a rancher, attorney and Republican politician from Ada County, currently serving as the junior United States Senator from Idaho. He previously served as Lieutenant Governor (2003–2006, 2007–2009) and Governor (2006–2007) of Idaho.
Early life
Risch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 1961 to 1963, then transferred to the University of Idaho where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He obtained his B.S. in Forestry in 1965 and continued his education at the university's College of Law, serving on Law Review, and receiving his J.D. in 1968. Risch entered politics in 1970, at age 27, winning election as Ada County Prosecuting Attorney. While ...
Tar Wars national poster contest winner Alexa Barrett, an 11-year-old from American Falls, Idaho, presents Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, with a copy of her poster. , positive
Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch joined 26 Republicans and 45 Democrats to pass the debt ceiling package that will cut hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending and force Congress' hand to cut billions more. The measure was quickly signed into law by President Barack Obama hours before the government's borrowing authority was officially set to run out.
Nineteen Republican and six Democratic members of the Senate voted against the bill, including Senators Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Lindsey Graham, Tom Harkin, Orrin Hatch, Ben Nelson, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Jeff Sessions and ...
Idaho's junior U.S. senator lashed out Saturday against President Barack Obama's handling of the current national debt crisis, saying nothing should be off the table when it comes to spending cuts.Sen. Jim Risch'scomments came during a lunchtime speech to fellow Republicans attending a state party meeting in Moscow. “This is a really difficult message I'm delivering here,” said Risch, prefacing his remarks. “It's not a fun message to deliver, but I really don't feel I'd be telling you the truth if I didn't lay the cards on the table.”
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A decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will subject logging roads in public and private forests to some of the most stringent environmental protection laws in the United States, Idaho’s two U.S. senators say.
Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, both Republicans, say their bill, the Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act, would overturn the ruling and “return to the model of logging road management that has been successfully utilized for the last 35 years.”
The appeals court said logging road runoff, when managed by a system of ditches and culverts and deposited ...