Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that the House of Representatives has given its approval to providing $1 million for the Idaho Meth Project. The funding passed through the House today as part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Bill. “The sad reality is that meth continues to rob too many… Read more »

Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has secured funding for the Old Idaho State Penitentiary as part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill.  Simpson is the Ranking Republican member on the Interior and Environment Subcommittee, which oversees funding for the National Park Service. The bill includes a $150,000… Read more »

 Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has secured funding to help and Idaho community meet Clean Water Act standards and for efforts to recover sage-grouse as part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill.  Simpson is the Ranking Republican member on the Interior and Environment Subcommittee, which oversees funding for… Read more »

Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson is urging Energy Secretary Steven Chu to support additional funding for Yucca Mountain as our nation’s long-term repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear waste. Simpson and a number of his Congressional colleagues wrote to the Energy Secretary today highlighting the complex problems associated with abandoning the Yucca Mountain project. “We… Read more »

Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has secured funding for a number of agriculture-related research initiatives in the State of Idaho, including several projects at the University of Idaho. The funding is included within the Fiscal Year 2010 Agriculture Appropriations bill, which will be considered by the House Appropriations Committee… Read more »

 Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today voted against the efforts of Congressional Democrats to include extraneous and controversial provisions in a bill to fund our nation’s troops. H.R. 2346, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009, originally passed the House by a strong bi-partisan majority when it was limited to troop and military funding but emerged from a Conference Committee… Read more »

 Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has filed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2010 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing any attempt to expand the federal government’s jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. Simpson is the Ranking Republican on the Interior and… Read more »

"In a small one-room school house in Waubeka, Wisconsin, in 1885, 19 year old grade school teacher Bernard J. Cigrand rested a small, 38-star American Flag in an inkwell on his desk and asked his students to write an essay on what the flag meant to them.  This became the first formal observance of Flag Day, and from that day forward Mr. Cigrand dedicated much of his life to establishing… Read more »

 Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has secured $3 million in funding for an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) project aimed at preventing and catching cyber attacks on our nation’s critical infrastructure. The funding is included as part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill which was approved by the House Appropriations… Read more »

 Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that he has secured an additional $1 million for the Idaho Meth Project in the Fiscal Year 2010 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Bill. “My wife Kathy and I have been so impressed by the Idaho Meth Project and the positive results it is achieving across the state,” said Simpson.… Read more »