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By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: 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 evaluating U.S.-China policy in the era of strategic competition. The witnesses included The Honorable Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of State, and The Honorable Ely Ratner, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement on the Philippines announcement of four new defense sites with the United States yesterday:
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined in introducing a bipartisan resolution reaffirming the United States’ strong support for democracy and democratic institutions in Nigeria. Unveiled in ...
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address:
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) decision to add six companies to the Entity List after learning of their involvement with the Chinese Communist...
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today reintroduced the Economic and Commercial Opportunities and Networks Act (ECON Act), to strengthen economic and commercial diplomacy.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently welcomed four new committee interns for the spring term.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: 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 in response to the Biden Administration’s “general license" related to Syria. The move undermines longstanding U.S. policy under both Republican and Democrat administrations, including this administration’s comments this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Turner (R-OH) sent a second batch of letters to intelligence officials about the public statement signed in October 2020 that attempted to discredit the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden and said it was the product of Russian disinformation.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) decision to add six companies to the Entity List after learning of their involvement with the Chinese Communist...
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today reintroduced the American Values Act, legislation to permanently enact and expand existing prohibitions on the use of U.S. foreign assistance to pay for the performance or promotion of abortion services overseas.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Chairman McCaul Announces Committee Leadership Team
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Barrasso Welcomes Senator Hawley to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Barrasso: The Security of U.S. Territories is More Important Now Than Ever
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Barrasso: DOE Must Not Waste Taxpayer Dollars
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Manchin, Cruz and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Block Strategic Petroleum Reserve Sales to China
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Manchin Statement on Decision to Move Willow Project Forward
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Manchin, Committee Examine the Department of Energy’s Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
Manchin, Bipartisan Colleagues Urge Administration to Invest in Non-Lithium Energy Storage Solutions
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023
ICYMI: Manchin, Bipartisan Colleagues Urge Administration to Revisit Copper for Listing as a Critical Mineral