Recent News About Mike Crapo
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Crapo, Risch Join Bicameral Amicus Brief Challenging CFPB’s Funding Structure
Idaho’s U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and Jim Risch joined a...
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Crapo Invites Idaho College Students to Apply for Internships
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) invites Idaho college-aged students to apply for internships in his Washington, D.C., and state offices.
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Crapo, Luján Reintroduce Legislation to Strengthen Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico) and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-New Mexico) and James Moylan (R-Guam) reintroduced bipartisan legislation designed to strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to...
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Crapo, Risch Commend SCOTUS Decision on Biden’s Unfair Student Loan Scheme
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) commended the Supreme Court’s final ruling on President Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” scheme, which would transfer up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrow onto taxpayers.
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Crapo, Risch, Colleagues Call on President Biden to Withdraw Julie Su Nomination for Labor Secretary
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Mike Braun (R-Indiana), along with 30 fellow Republican Senators, sent a letter to President Biden calling for the withdrawal of Julie Su’s nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Labor.
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Crapo, Risch Fight to Protect Idaho Businesses from Labor Union Slowdowns
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) introduced the Preventing Labor Union Slowdowns (PLUS) Act to update federal law to define a labor slowdown by maritime workers as an unfair labor practice.
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Crapo Statement at Hearing on Cattle Supply Chains and Amazon Deforestation
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled “Cattle Supply Chains and Amazon Deforestation.”
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Crapo, Risch Fight Biden’s Unconstitutional Pistol Brace Rule
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) June 22 voted to prevent the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from enforcing its rule to require pistol brace owners to put their names on a federal gun registry.
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Crapo, Colleagues Write Open Letter of Support for Imprisoned Reporter Evan Gershkovich
-U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined 31 colleagues in writing an open letter to wrongfully detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
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Idaho to Receive $38.2 Million in PILT Funding for Community Services
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) announced 44 local governments in Idaho will receive a total of $38.2 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funding for 2023.
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Crapo, Colleagues Urge Immediate Action to Resolve Passport Application Backlog
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) and 12 additional colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to take immediate action to resolve the massive backlog of passport applications.
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Crapo Backs Constitutional Amendment to Prohibit Burning the American Flag
On Flag Day 2023, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Senators Steve Daines (R-Montana) and Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) in introducing a constitutional amendment to prohibit the physical desecration of the American flag.
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Crapo Backs Effort to Bring Whole Milk Access To All Schools
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) joined Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) in introducing bipartisan legislation that amends the Richard Russell National School Lunch Act to allow schools participating in the program to serve whole milk as part of the National School Lunch Program.
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Crapo Statement at Hearing on Anti-poverty and Family Support Provisions in the Tax Code
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled “Anti-Poverty and Family Support Provisions in the Tax Code.”
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Crapo Welcomes Interns for Summer 2023 Term
Nine interns have joined U.S. Senator Mike Crapo’s (R-Idaho) Washington, D.C., Boise and Lewiston offices for the summer 2023 term.
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Crapo, Risch, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation to Combat 'Smash-And-Grab'
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) joined 21 Senators to reintroduce the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) Protection Act of 2023.
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Crapo, Risch Introduce Bill to Create New Twelfth Circuit, Improve Access to Justice
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) joined Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Steve Daines (R-Montana) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in introducing the Judicial Efficiency Improvement Act of 2023, a bill that would split the massively overburdened Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Crapo, Bennet, Buck, Neguse Introduce Bipartisan Water and Agriculture Tax Reform Act
U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) have introduced the Water and Agriculture Tax Reform (WATER) Act. The bipartisan legislation reforms outdated tax provisions hindering investment in important infrastructure advances.
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Crapo Statement at Hearing on Health Care Consolidation
U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled “Consolidation and Corporate Ownership in Health Care: Trends and Impacts on Access, Quality, and Costs.”
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Crapo Joins Fox Business to Discuss the Biden Administration’s Attack on Gas Furnaces
In an interview with the hosts of the Big Money Show on Fox Business, U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) discussed the Biden Administration’s overreaching policy to drive carbon-based fuels out of the economy regardless of cost to Americans.