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Participants of the Congressional Art Competition will be featured in an exhibit in the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho (300 S. Capitol Ave.) on Thursday, April 5, 2012. Congressman Mike Simpson invites all to attend a reception acknowledging participating students that will begin at 4:00 p.m.  Simpson will recognize 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in both categories of Photography, and… Read more »

Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson challenged the two arms of the government’s nuclear energy organizations, the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), when they came to testify before the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee.  The FY13 budget request for the Department of Energy decreases funding for the Office of Nuclear Energy… Read more »

  Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson issued the following statement in response to the release of the president’s budget for FY 2013.   “I will look over the President’s budget request over the next several weeks, and look forward to hearing from Administration officials on the specifics of their proposals.  However, looking over it today I am discouraged that it does not… Read more »

Today, members of Idaho’s Congressional Delegation expressed their grief at the unexpected death of Micron C.E.O. Steve Appleton this morning, offering their deepest condolences to the family, friends and coworkers of one of Idaho’s most influential businessmen.  Senator Mike Crapo, Congressman Mike Simpson and Congressman Raùl Labrador issued the following joint statement on… Read more »

"Today we pay respect and remember those who gave their lives on 9/11, their memory will be forever in our hearts. While we honor and pray for the victims on that fateful day, we also pray for our soldiers in the field who have fought and continue to fight to protect our freedom. God Bless America." Read more »

While I am not surprised by Judge Molloy's decision, I am pleased the district court has upheld the constitutionality of my language and confident that wolves will remain delisted and under state management. Wolves are clearly a fully recovered species and anyone but the most unreasonable of activists knows their delisting is not just warranted, it is essential and legal. Read more »

House Appropriations Committee to Mark Up - FY 2012 Interior Appropriations Bill, Tuesday, July 12 10:30 EST/ 8:30 MST Read more »

“During the debt debate, as Congress and the President circle each other, make offers and counter offers, propose concessions, then refuse to compromise, the American people can’t help but think they have been to this dance before.  They didn’t like what they saw during the government shutdown dispute and they don’t like this new version of the same old thing.   “It’s no… Read more »

 “’When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel… Read more »