Jim Risch Official Bio

Jim Risch

James Elroy Risch is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Idaho since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served as lieutenant governor of Idaho under governors Dirk Kempthorne and Butch Otter and as the 31st governor of Idaho from 2006 to 2007. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Jim Risch has 341 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2006 Forum as a Governor. The year with the most videos was 2017 with 38 videos. Most appearances with John Cornyn (6), John A. Barrasso M.D. (6), Ted Cruz (6). Most common tags: Russian Federation, Ukraine, Senate.

Appearances by Title:January 6, 2009 - Present U.S. Senator, R-ID View Map


Videos: 337

Previously

Governor,
R-Idaho c. May 26, 2006 - c. January 1, 2007 Videos: 2 Lieutenant Governor, Idaho
R c. January 1, 2007 - c. January 3, 2009 Videos: 2

Recent Appearances

See all appearances

Appearance Stats

Member of Congress Record

District Map
Ideology Rankings
Past Elections

Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at Voteview .

Historic election results compiled from data found on FEC.gov

Committees

Votes

Floor Activity

    • Days on Floor: 3
    • Total Time Speaking: 13 minutes
    • Common Floor Remark Topics:

Bills

* The first paragraph of this page uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Jim Risch', which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. Footnotes and parentheticals have been removed.