Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Mike Crapo, a Republican from Idaho, talks with Bloomberg's Al Hunt about President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs proposal and the outlook for reducing the federal budget deficit and debt. Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer and Julie Davis discuss the Republican presidential campaign. Julianna Goldman talks about the likelihood of congressional passage of the president's jobs plan. Commentators Margaret Carlson and Kate O'Beirne debate the Obama speech and...Read Full Story
July 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Mike Crapo, an Idaho Republican and member of a bipartisan group of senators know as the Gang of Six, talks about the group's proposal to reduce the federal budget deficit. The plan would shave about $3.7 trillion from debt over 10 years through tax increases and spending cuts. Crapo speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story
July 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Mike Crapo, an Idaho Republican and member of a bipartisan group of senators know as the Gang of Six, talks about the group's proposal to reduce the federal budget deficit. The plan would shave about $3.7 trillion from debt over 10 years through tax increases and spending cuts. Crapo speaks with Mark Crumpton on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)Read Full Story
By ICB Today I had a chance to speak with Idaho Senator and Gang of Six member, Mike Crapo. ICB: I appreciate you taking a couple of minutes for us. There has been a lot of talk about what’s going on with you and the Gang of Six proposal and the debt ceiling debate and my understanding is these are two separate issues are they not? Crapo: Absolutely yes, the gang of six proposal was developed in an effort to latterly change the fiscal policy of the United States in a very comprehensive way to...Read Full Story
Here is a press release that came out from the office of Mike Crapo , the senator from Idaho, regarding a reimbursement program for livestock depredations by wolves. In it he states that since the delisting Defenders has stopped their reimbursement program in Idaho, which is not entirely accurate. For those of you who who have been following the Northern Rockies wolves situation we just wanted to clarify that while the lawsuit is still on going Defenders is in fact still continuing the...Read Full Story
WASHINGTON — Idaho lawmakers Mike Simpson and Mike Crapo, key players in the national deficit-reduction debate, say they’re trying to move past the failed “happy talk” and come up with actual legislation that can pass Congress in spite ...
WASHINGTON Sen. Mike Crapo is the only member of the Idaho delegation so far to sign on to an effort for members of Congress to sit with a lawmaker from the opposite party during the presidents State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
House sponsors call upon colleagues to support bipartisan, job-creating legislation
Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) and Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY) applauded Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) for their success in including H.R. 1802, the Sustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act (SWIIA) of 2011, in the Senate transportation bill.
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Americans for Prosperity, founded and heavily financed by the thieving, polluting, climate change-denying, tea party-backing David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, have posted a voting scorecard for the first half of the 112th Congress. Five Republican senators and 39 Republican congresspersons got perfect 100 percent scores. Every single one of them a Republican. The senators are Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Orrin...
A liberal blog on Wednesday ripped Sen. Mike Crapo for earning a top five ranking from the Koch brothers' Americans For Prosperity. Idaho’s senior senator was one of five senators to score a 100 percent voting record with Americans For ...
Idaho U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo is part of a congressional conference committee looking to iron out details on how to extend the nation's payroll tax holiday. The tax break, which would allow most Americans to see an $800 to $1,000 benefit, expired at the end of 2011, and Congress is working against a Wednesday, Feb. 29, deadline, following a short-term two-month extension.…
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Idaho senior U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo has joined nine other Republicans in asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for greater scrutiny of a draft report that links fracking to groundwater pollution in a Wyoming gas field.
A Dec. 9 report from the EPA theorized that gas exploration activity, including fracking—the controversial method of injecting high-pressure fluids to enhance gas flows—may have caused groundwater contamination...
CHEERS... to Sen. Mike Crapo and Congressman Mike Simpson, both R-Idaho. In a year marked by partisan back-stabbing and intransigence about the national debt, Crapo and Simpson stood apart - if only to put the country's best interests first.
Jon Kyl, Senate Republican Whip; Sen. Mike Crapo, member of the Senate Finance Committee; and John Barrasso, chairman-elect of the Republican Policy Committee. "These three Senators will help lead our efforts to focus on the areas of agreement between the ...
Official Website of Mike Crapo, U.S. Senator from Idaho and Chairman of the International Trade and Finance, and Forestry Conservation and Rural Revitalization Subcommittees.
Michael Dean " Mike" Crapo (pronounced /ˈkreɪpoʊ/ "Cray-poe"; born May 20, 1951) is the senior United States Senator from Idaho. He is a member of the Republican Party.