Russ Fulcher: “I am excited that we have the opportunity now to extend this authority, in a pilot program, to the Army Corps of…”

The reason for the lack of support has been because about 85% of the +/- $1.5 trillion in spending has been ear-marked for the SNAP (food-stamps) program.

I’m proud to sign on to this legislation to protect the privacy rights of Idahoans from increasingly intrusive surveillance data collection and to prohibit the widespread deployment of such surveillance tools with federal dollars.

The data privacy stuff, especially recently with the Flock cameras, that has got a lot of people on edge.

However, the lack of consistent geothermal lease sales and the slow federal permitting process result in timelines longer than many other energy projects.