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.
the states know how to spend this money better than the Federal Government does.
The problem was exactly the same way. When I became governor, we had 800 empty positions for nurses; and the people who were in our nursing schools were exactly the kind of people we were trying to help.
The complaint I get most of all at home is the strings that the Federal Government attaches whenever money comes.
You know, on a short-term basis, what she is talking about is really, really critical to this country.
My experience over many, many years is I have very, very little confidence in the Federal Government to do just about anything.
this is the one shot we have got because when this bill was drafted, my experience, I did almost 30 years in our State senate, and as with every law, what you just talked about the law of unintended consequences comes back and bites us…
the language of the bill needs to be specific. It needs to tell these agencies what they can and, more importantly, what they cannot do.
When this thing is enacted, I absolutely guarantee you there is going to be problems with it;





