James E. Risch

Born 1943-05-03 | Republican | ID

Age: 83
Website: Official site
Contact: Contact form
Phone: 202-224-2752
Washington office: 483 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Official biography (Congress Bioguide)

Ideology score (-1 = most liberal, +1 = most conservative): 117th Senate: +0.55 (more conservative than 77% of the chamber); 118th Senate: +0.55 (more conservative than 78% of the chamber); 119th Senate: +0.55 (more conservative than 71% of the chamber) What is this?

Congress	Chamber	State	Party	Votes cast	Missed	Missed %	Party votes	With party	Unity %	Sponsored	Became law	Law %
117th	Senate	ID	Republican	882	67	7.1	708	658	92.9	35	1	2.9
118th	Senate	ID	Republican	623	68	9.8	485	465	95.9	51	0	0.0
119th	Senate	ID	Republican	889	26	2.8	816	816	100.0	49	0	0.0

Key votes

Vote	Date	Result	How they voted	Matched party majority?
Government funding law ending the 2025 shutdown (Senate)	2025-11-10	Bill Passed	Yea	Yes
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Senate)	2025-07-01	Bill Passed	Yea	Yes
GENIUS Act (Senate)	2025-06-17	Bill Passed	Yea	Yes
Laken Riley Act (Senate)	2025-01-20	Bill Passed	Yea	Yes
Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan security funding (Senate)	2024-02-13	Bill Passed	Yea	No
Fiscal Responsibility Act (Senate)	2023-06-01	Bill Passed	Nay	Yes
Respect for Marriage Act (Senate)	2022-11-29	Bill Passed	Nay	Yes
Inflation Reduction Act (Senate)	2022-08-07	Bill Passed	Nay	Yes
Honoring our PACT Act (Senate)	2022-06-16	Bill Passed	Nay	No
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Senate)	2021-08-10	Bill Passed	Yea	No
American Rescue Plan Act (Senate)	2021-03-06	Bill Passed	Nay	Yes

About these votes

Voting patterns

Congress	Chamber	Against both parties	% of votes where parties agreed	With winning side %	Close votes	Voted on	Missed
117th	Senate	26	15.0	32.3	300	295	5
118th	Senate	26	19.4	27.7	191	183	8
119th	Senate	3	4.2	96.2	359	348	11

Votes most like theirs (119th Congress, Senate)

Member	Party	State	Agreement
Mike Crapo	R	ID	99.8%
Steve Daines	R	MT	99.8%
Bernie Moreno	R	OH	99.7%
James C. Justice	R	WV	99.6%
James Lankford	R	OK	99.5%

Votes least like theirs (119th Congress, Senate)

Member	Party	State	Agreement
Edward J. Markey	D	MA	2.8%
Bernard Sanders	D	VT	2.9%
Elizabeth Warren	D	MA	3.1%
Christopher Murphy	D	CT	3.7%
Chris Van Hollen	D	MD	4.3%

Against both parties counts votes where the Democratic and Republican majorities took the same side and the member voted the other way. With winning side counts votes that matched the final outcome. A close vote is a roll call decided by 5 votes or fewer; absences can have many causes. Agreement is the share of votes both members cast on which they voted the same way (at least 100 shared votes). Independents who caucus with a party count as part of it, and delegates are left out of the party tallies. Counts cover members in this site's data and may differ slightly from official tallies.

Cosponsorship

Congress	Cosponsored	Across party	Across %	Avg cosponsors on own bills	Own bills with other-party cosponsor	Share %
117th	230	49	21.3	6.0	10	28.6
118th	317	72	22.7	6.5	17	33.3
119th	248	38	15.3	7.2	19	38.8

Cosponsorship counts bills and joint resolutions only. A cosponsorship is across party lines when the cosponsor and the bill's sponsor are in different parties; independents who caucus with a party count as part of it, and members outside both caucuses are left out of the percentages. Totals can differ slightly from Congress.gov because of withdrawn cosponsors. The 119th Congress is still in progress.

A party vote is a roll call where the Democratic and Republican majorities took opposite sides. Unity % is how often the member sided with their own party's majority on those votes. Sponsored counts bills and joint resolutions only. Became law means the bill itself was enacted; bills whose text was folded into other legislation are not counted. The 119th Congress is still in progress.