I rise today to remember and honor Ian F. Fergusson, Specialist in International Trade and Finance in the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service, CRS. Ian passed away on Thursday, June 17, after a…
Mike Crapo
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Mike Dean Crapo is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Idaho, a position he has held since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Crapo has focused on various issues including tax policy, healthcare, and trade. He has been an advocate for making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent and has expressed support for targeted tariffs to protect American interests.
Congress should enact policies to encourage workers to save, so that they can enjoy a retirement.
I hope we will not lose sight of that as we move forward in this important arena.
We have a chance to build on the success of the SECURE Act in a bipartisan way.
Congress should enact policies that encourage workers to save so they can enjoy a secure retirement.
this is a bipartisan issue where retirement security is something that we all agree on
I frequently hear from small business owners in Idaho who tell me how expensive and cumbersome the rules are to offer their employees a retirement plan.
Private retirement saving and retirement security are issues in the Finance Committee's jurisdiction that have a history of bipartisan cooperation.
Our retirement system must adapt with this changing landscape, so that every worker has a chance to save for a secure retirement.
Thank you for your ongoing leadership to achieve critical retirement policy reforms for Americans.
I would love to do this for my employees, but I do not have an HR department. I have sandwiches to make.
Private retirement savings and retirement security are issues in the Finance Committee's jurisdiction that have a history of bipartisan cooperation.
I support a number of USMCA innovations to help us meet the challenges of the 21st-century economy and drive economic prosperity in North America.
For over 2 decades, Senator Enzi passionately served the people of Wyoming as a thoughtful conservative leader.
I assume that if we can get those issues resolved, the actual terms of the USMCA with regard to dairy, for example, would result in significant benefits to American dairy producers.
I will not consider the matter finished until Idaho's farmers are able to sell high-quality potatoes to every family in Mexico.
The economic environment for U.S. businesses seeking access to the Mexican market deteriorated significantly, in my opinion, in the last year.
We need to restore smooth and predictable trading conditions with Mexico to ensure that the U.S. and Mexico remain an integrated market and the promise of USMCA is fulfilled.
We need to ensure that Mexico implements these provisions in a manner that fulfills and recognizes the market access gains in NAFTA and USMCA.
Mexico and Canada are two of our most important trading partners, and we cannot take these relationships for granted.
I am concerned that some of our Democrat House colleagues now want to push their changes--that allegedly strengthen labor and environment standards, but most certainly weaken our intellectual property rights--into new agreements before we…





