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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement on the Honduran government’s plans to terminate its extradition treaty with the United States: “We are deeply concerned by the Honduran government’s plans to terminate its...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), ranking member and chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today released the following statement on controversial proposed judicial reforms in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), along with U.S. Representatives Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), today announced their intent to introduce the Venezuela Advancing Liberty, Opportunity, and Rights Act (VALOR Act) when...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently released a report entitled One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Review of U.S.-Europe Cooperation on China, that grades the Biden-Harris Administration on its lack of progress in addressing the challenges posed by China. This report is...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today called out the Biden-Harris Administration and congressional Democrats for continuing to turn their back on Israel. “While Israel continues to defend itself against Hamas, the Biden-Harris Administration and congressional Democrats are...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent the following statement on the border crisis that has been exacerbated by the Biden-Harris Administration’s failed policies: “It’s well known and documented that America’s illegal immigration and border crisis was put into overdrive once...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding the Biden-Harris Administration’s last four years of failed policy related to Venezuela: “The current predicament in Venezuela is no surprise to anyone who has paid attention. The Biden-Harris...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the Biden-Harris Administration’s decision to finally certify that the United Kingdom and Australia have regulatory systems comparable to the United States: “It’s been nearly three years since AUKUS...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) released the following statement regarding the Biden-Harris Administration’s Middle East policy and a possible Iranian attack against Israel: “The Biden-Harris Administration has consistently pursued policies that embolden America’s adversaries and undercut our allies – no one should be surprised that...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement ahead of the third anniversary of the fall of Kabul on August 15: “Three years ago, the Biden-Harris Administration abandoned our allies and partners and haphazardly withdrew from Afghanistan. This...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and over a third of the Senate in a bipartisan push urging the return of American journalist Austin Tice. Following the momentum of last week’s historic prisoner release, the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) today led 45 Senate Republican colleagues in sending a letter to the Biden-Harris Administration, protesting its partial arms embargo against Israel. The senators urged the White House to cease...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, thanks committee interns for their work during the summer term. “This summer I was pleased to welcome seven exceptional interns to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” said Risch. “The international community is navigating a multitude of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement regarding news of a brokered deal between several nations, including the United States, and the Russian government to free a number of political prisoners held in Russia: “After years of detention in the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chair of the Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following joint statement in response to the State Department’s decision to pause $95...

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 sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the State Department’s ongoing lack of transparency and refusal to cooperate with the...

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 strategic competition with the PRC: assessing U.S. competitiveness beyond the Indo-Pacific. Witnesses included The Honorable Kurt Campbell, deputy secretary of...

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 Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.), sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and USAID Administrator Samantha...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the Maduro regime claiming victory in Venezuela’s presidential elections: “I am concerned but not surprised that Nicolas Maduro is tightening his grip on Venezuela. To be sure, Maduro is reaping the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released a report entitled One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: A Review of U.S.-Europe Cooperation on China. This report is a follow-up to Risch’s 2020 report in which he laid out a number of key areas where the United States should...