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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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Dec 17, 2013

These goals are not a suggestion.

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Dec 17, 2013

I will be really interested to hear why and I will be interested to hear what the plans are to get there.

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Nov 19, 2013

Whenever you try to socialize an industry or nationalize an industry like has been done here, it has never worked.

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Nov 19, 2013

This has been a catastrophic failure across America.

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Nov 19, 2013

It has been tried in all kinds of socialist countries, and it never works, and it is not going to work here.

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Nov 19, 2013

You did not promise us that if we politicians like your policy, we are going to let you keep it.

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Nov 19, 2013

We look forward to moving that forward and appreciate his interest in it.

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Nov 19, 2013

That is really good to hear that they were working. People were able to sign up.

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Nov 19, 2013

I commend you for holding this hearing, but probably not for the reasons that you think.

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Nov 19, 2013

It is working because this small part is, really is to ignore the overall problem.

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Nov 19, 2013

The American people want to be free. We are smart people. We can make our own decisions.

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Nov 14, 2013

every one of us can stand here and tell thousands of stories. Mine will come from a gentleman by the name of Clint W., who is a small business owner. He received notice that he wasn't grandfathered, was being cancelled as of the first of…

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