“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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Jim Risch

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Jim Risch is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Risch previously held the position of lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2006 to 2009 and served in the Idaho State Senate from 2002 to 2006. Throughout his career, he has focused on issues such as government accountability and land management, reflecting the interests of his constituents in Idaho.

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Nov 13, 2017

these are pragmatic decisions that have to be made and will be made, and they are not going to be clouded by arguments of an army of lawyers.

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Nov 13, 2017

Every single word that has been uttered here this morning in this hearing is going to be analyzed in Pyongyang.

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Oct 31, 2017

this is much broader than that and is, as you say, divisive--aimed at divisiveness, or aimed at discord?

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Oct 31, 2017

No-one's exempt. I come from a State that's a lot smaller, Idaho.

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Oct 31, 2017

This is a lot deeper than just the elections.

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Oct 31, 2017

The U.S. isn't the only country suffering from this.

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Oct 31, 2017

I always look at something from an objective standpoint--``What is their objective? What are they trying to accomplish?''

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Oct 31, 2017

the Russians are doing what they've done all along, long before your technology even existed, and that is trying to sow discord.

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Oct 29, 2017

Everybody wants to do something. Everybody wants a new AUMF, and the parties on both sides are working, I really believe, in good faith.

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Oct 25, 2017

the Federal Government does not always do things exactly the way they should.

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Oct 25, 2017

we want to make life better for our constituents and Americans

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Oct 25, 2017

And we do it together, particularly on this Committee.

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