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Michael Dean "Mike" Crapo (born May 20, 1951) is the senior United States Senator from the state of Idaho and a member of the Republican Party. Born in the city of Idaho Falls, Crapo is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Harvard Law School. He practiced law in his home city throughout the 1980s, while maintaining an active role in local Republican politics. His brother Terry Crapo was majority leader in the Idaho House of Representatives and a growing political figure until his death from leukemia in 1982. Mike Crapo, prompted by his brother's death, successfully ran for the Idaho Senate in 1984. He became Senate President pro tempore from 1988 to 1992, in which position he served as Acting Governor of Idaho for 12 hours in January 1989. Crapo was elected to Congress in ...
As President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday about how to address the nation’s debt crisis, Sen. Mike Crapo was listening carefully.
The Idaho Republican last year sat on the president’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which released a plan that cuts $4 trillion from budget deficits over the next 10 years, in an effort to pare down the $13.8 trillion federal debt.
The plan didn’t get enough support from the panel for Congress to take a vote on it, but that hasn’t stopped six of its members — including Crapo — from working on ...
Raul Labrador is hiring Mike Crapo's former campaign manager Jake Ball
Congressman-elect Raul Labrador is starting to put together his congressional staff. He announced Thursday that he is hiring Jake Ball, a former employee of Sen. Mike Crapo, as his district director, who will oversee all his offices across Idaho’s 1st Congressional District.
Ball managed Crapo’s 2010 Senate campaign and worked on Crapo’s congressional staff in Idaho for seven years.
“Senator Crapo’s staff has set very high standards for its work in Idaho, which I intend to ...
Boise, Idaho -- Therewere few surprises for a couple of Idaho incumbents in the U.S. Senate and Representative Dist.2 race Tuesday.
Republican Mike Crapo outdistanced Democratic challenger Tom Sullivan71.1 percent (318,099 votes)to25 percent (111,693) to keep the Senate seat he's held since 1998. Constitutionalist Randy Bergquistwas third with3.9percent of the vote.
The same is happened with incumbent Republican Mike Simpson in the U.S. Representative Dist. 2 race, where hehad68.8 percent of the votes (136,640)over challengers Mike Crawford (Dem) at24.4 percent(48,540) and Brian ...