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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today, on the 10-year anniversary of a key milestone in the Columbia River Treaty negotiation process, sent a letter to U.S. President Joe...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rick Scott (R-Fla.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) yesterday sent a letter to President Biden asking the administration to take immediate steps to hold accountable Cristina Elisabet Fernández de...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with U.S. Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill) and Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), introduced a bicameral and bipartisan resolution expressing the United States’ support for the peaceful democratic and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and 24 other colleagues in a letter condemning the inaction of the United Nations (UN)...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today released the following statement on the Maduro regime’s arrest warrants for members of an opposition party: “We are...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) led their colleagues in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland expressing serious concern about Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence over Chinese Students and Scholars Associations...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday met with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Cameron in the U.S. Capitol. “It was an honor to welcome Foreign Secretary Cameron to the U.S. Senate yesterday. The United States and United Kingdom face many shared challenges around...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today participated in a panel entitled “The Changing Strategic Environment: Lessons and Opportunities” at the 2023 Aspen Security Forum: DC Edition. Risch was joined by General Anthony Cotton, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, and the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded the inclusion of several of his priorities in the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Inspector General for Ukraine “As part of our effort to support Ukraine, we must enhance the oversight of our assistance to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee nomination hearing. The nominee included The Honorable Kurt Campbell to be deputy secretary of State. Ranking Member Risch gave the following remarks: “Thank you very much, Mr....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after voting no on the funding bill due to lack of border security policies: “Today’s vote on a supplemental funding package for aid to Israel, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific, and our nation’s border was rightly...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on transnational repression. Witnesses included Mr. Christo Grovez, investigative journalist and co-founder of Bellingcat Productions, Mr. Michael Abramowitz, President of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Biden Administration’s announcement of an atrocities determination in Sudan after months...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) in calling on President Biden to reaffirm America’s global economic leadership by reversing a decision by the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to abandon long-held positions at...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Ron Wyden (R-Ore.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today endorsed a package of legislation to provide double-tax relief between the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Representatives Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), in introducing the bipartisan, bicameral Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act. The bill...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) today led nine Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine. In addition to Risch and Ricketts, the resolution is cosponsored by Senators John Cornyn...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Coons (D-Del.), yesterday sent a letter to Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Executive Officer Alice Albright expressing concerns over Sierra Leone’s continued eligibility for an MCC compact. “We write to express concern over...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on reports of the Chinese navy injuring Australian divers with sonar pulses near Japan: “China’s latest provocation on the high seas, this time directed at Australia, is more than risky operational...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, are announcing additional members of the congressional delegation to the 15th annual Halifax International Security...