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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently welcomed five new committee interns for the fall term. “I am pleased to welcome five new interns to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” said Risch. “These interns will have the opportunity to experience firsthand how the Senate...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led 25 colleagues in introducing a resolution calling for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich from Russia. “Freedom of the press is critical to holding governments accountable around the world....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met Wednesday with the ambassadors from NATO member countries in the U.S. Capitol. “It was a pleasure to host the ambassadors from NATO member countries to discuss the important and enduring role of this...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on Senator Cardin’s assumption of the role of chairman: “I look forward to working more closely with my friend, Ben Cardin, as he takes on the role of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced the Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act, legislation to extend and strengthen the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. “Bashar al Assad, along with his Russian and Iranian backers, has committed...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last week joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), in a bipartisan letter with 28 fellow senators to E3 countries (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) applauding them for taking steps to uphold restrictions on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday joined Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in introducing a resolution in support The Alliance for Development in Democracy (ADD), a multilateral...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senator Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and fourteen colleagues in introducing the Science and Technology Agreement Enhanced Congressional Notification Act. The bill would strengthen oversight of science and technology agreements (STAs)...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Collins (R-Maine), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) today offered the following comments...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the need for reform at the United Nations (UN): “This year’s UN General Assembly (UNGA) is not based in reality. In addition to excluding democratic Taiwan’s participation, this year’s UNGA has been used...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement ahead of the 52nd anniversary of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s (UNGA) passage of Resolution 2758, which switched recognition of China’s representatives...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today welcomed Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to the U.S. Capitol for a meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “It was a pleasure to welcome Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to the U.S. Capitol today. Vietnam is an...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), ranking member and chair of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, this week introduced a bipartisan resolution congratulating...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on assessing the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. Witnesses included The Honorable Yuri Kim, acting assistant secretary at the Bureau of European and Eurasian affairs at the State...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the termination of U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Discovery and Exploration of Emerging Pathogen-Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) program: “USAID should not be engaged in virus hunting...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on AUKUS: a generational opportunity to deepen our security partnerships with Australia and the United Kingdom. Witnesses included The Honorable Jessica Lewis, assistant...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the recent coup in Gabon: “The coup in Gabon after President Bongo’s disputed re-election is the ninth...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week joined U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Senate colleagues in a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona expressing concerns over new reports showing millions of dollars from Chinese Communist Party...

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on this week’s elections in Zimbabwe: “The 2023 elections in Zimbabwe were a sham. The government weaponized the judiciary, silenced the opposition, manipulated the accreditation of observers, and created...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the Central...