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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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Oct 25, 2017

Notwithstanding what you hear about what Congress does not do, we do occasionally do something.

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Oct 25, 2017

I know everybody is having a good time and networking and moving the enterprise forward but we really should get started.

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Jul 17, 2017

Please get me off this tether of fossil fuels

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Jul 11, 2017

You know, people sense weakness. You know, cut it all. Cut every last penny of it.

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Jul 11, 2017

I want to associate myself with the remarks from my distinguished colleague and close personal friend, Senator Crapo, and join him in urging our fellow Senators to quickly confirm Judge Nye. As pointed out by Senator Crapo, this will be…

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Jul 11, 2017

I do not know how you explain to the American people that we are paying utility bills for people in the West Bank when people in America cannot pay their utility bills.

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Jul 11, 2017

As long as Americans are willing to write checks over there for those people, things are not going to change.

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Jul 11, 2017

You keep funding people who commit terrorism, you will get more of it.

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Jul 11, 2017

I think Palestinians need to be told this has to stop.

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Jul 11, 2017

To me, this legislation is an absolute no-brainer. I would go much further than this.

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Jul 11, 2017

If the Knesset cannot even withhold the tax money, some amount of money equivalent to what the payments are, my goodness, what kind of message are we sending?

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Jun 27, 2017

I think there's a lot of us, with what we hear about what's going on in North Korea and some of our other adversaries, that Russia certainly is a dangerous adversary, but when you have someone running a country like Kim Jong Un and with…

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