FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 31, 2026CONTACT: Christianne.Allen@mail.house.gov WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher (Idaho-01) released the following statement after co-sponsoring H.R. 9716, the Protecting Rights in Video and Equipment Acquired Discovery (PRIVACY) Act. “I’m proud to sign on to this legislation to protect the privacy rights of Idahoans from increasingly intrusive surveillance data collection and to […]
Former Senator Ben Sasse recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal about football’s historic role in shaping young men at the high-school and college levels. His observation is timely: playing the game and watching it are profoundly different experiences. Not all young men are equipped physically to play football, but America unfortunately, now has far […]
In this midterm-election year, Republicans and Democrats are running markedly different campaigns at every level of government. Republicans are generally campaigning on policy: public safety, border security, taxes, energy, economic growth, parental rights, and the cost of living. Democrats, by contrast, too often appear to be building a political narrative intended to evoke an immediate […]
I constantly hear on the news from both conservative and liberal media that Americans are complaining about unaffordability and how families are struggling to make ends meet under the Trump Administration. Well, it is high time that middle America woke up and discovered that it is not Trump’s fault that things are unaffordable. The left […]
In my class, I like to ask students a simple question: what’s the first word in the US Constitution after the Preamble? Most guess wrong. Look it up yourself — it’s “All.” The full sentence: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” Not most. Not some, subject […]
This episode opens with a bone to pick: a federal plan the discussion says would reprocess fuel rods at the INL and accept a third of the nation’s radioactive waste, atop the Snake River Aquifer. The episode recounts the 1950–1983 era of liquefied waste injected into the ground that reached the aquifer, invokes Three Mile […]
Proponents of abortion, and of Proposition 1 here in Idaho, want to steer the conversation toward vague concepts of healthcare, freedom, choice, and rare edge cases while avoiding the obvious: abortion is the deliberate destruction of a human life. Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg of a deep sickness in modern culture. […]
I have lived in Idaho my entire life. I’d tell you about its unmatched beauty, its tight-knit communities and the peace and safety we’re blessed to have, but that would encourage more people to move here and we have more than enough people moving in as it is. In Fact, the only thing that prevents […]
Like flock cameras, data centers are the latest issue for opposition. Among many issues, their massive use of water resources, excessive need for electricity, and of course, their purpose of storing and analyzing data that citizens are being robbed of are all at the top of the list for opposition. But these centers are behind […]
For years Meta assured parents that Instagram was safe for their children while its own internal records documented what the platform was doing to them. This week the company agreed to pay $17.1 billion and to rebuild how Facebook and Instagram work for children. Idaho will receive between $89.2 million and $127.7 million of that, […]
Let me start with the fact that the federal government controls 61.9% of Idaho’s land or about 32.8 of its 52.9 million acres. Unfortunately, as the players in Washington change so do the objectives for our land. We can all remember Lava Ridge where the BLM gave final approval in Dec. 2024 to a 104,000 […]
Healthcare has been a constant government obsession for decades, and over the years has continued to take gradual control over it. What is befuddling is the motive behind doing so. It is unclear just exactly what the fascination is that motivates the government to stick its nose into a person’s private health matters. Not being […]