Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Michael K. Simpson [R, ID-2]

House panel OKs big spending cuts

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...and housing programs are also hit hard, together with the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who manages the EPA and Western lands budget, candidly admitted later that he doubts he can win House passage

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Memorial Weekend wonder: Head to Idahos LDS ghost town, Chesterfield

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...Larry Craig is seeking $450,000 for restoration of another fine building, the 1902 Chesterfield School. Craig, working with Rep. Mike Simpson, still must get the appropriation through Congress, but he cleared a big hurdle June 19, when his provision was

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Crapo's campaign suffered from poor controls

2013-05-19T01:00:00Z

...district director. Ball quit Labrador's post May 9, one day before Crapo filed amended reports. Aides for Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson and Sen. Jim Risch say their campaigns have safeguards to protect donor money from a similar fate. Among other th

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Rep. Peterson: Pelosi supports food stamp cuts in House farm bill

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...and sugar to make sure we have enough votes to maintain those programs on the floor,” he said, adding he is working with Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho). Boehner has described the dairy supply management proposal in the bill as “Soviet style,” and Pet

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Cabinet secretaries vow to find money to fight fires

2013-05-14T01:00:00Z

...year, the Senate sent its stopgap budget to the House with $97 million of fire-suppression funds cut. Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson, chairman of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, predicted that the agencies would have

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Idaho Statesman Local News: Cabinet secretaries vow to find money to fight fires

2013-05-14T01:00:00Z

A rosier economic outlook now colors political picture for Obama

2013-05-13T01:00:00Z

...until maybe October. I was hoping we would get to it in May or June because ultimately we have to get a big deal,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who chairs a House Appropriations subcommittee. He added that the last jobs report is creating a sense

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Simpson urges BLM to address fire threat to sage grouse

2013-05-08T01:00:00Z

...Republican Rep. Mike Simpson chastised the Bureau of Land Management for cutting its budget for fire prevention at the same time it is seeking to keep the sage grouse off the endangered species list. “It seems that the agency is looking mostly at limi

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Crapo's campaign warchest biggest in Idaho delegation

2013-05-03T01:00:00Z

...$23,170, and had $259,523 on hand; 1st District Rep. Raul Labrador raised $22,120, spent $37,158, and had $235,433 on hand; and 2nd District Rep. Mike Simpson raised $86,850, spent $81,513, and had $71,826 in cash. You can read Popkey’s full report he

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Raising it, spending it...

2013-05-03T01:00:00Z

...Sen. Jim Risch, who raised more than twice what he spent during the quarter, had campaign events as his biggest expense. Rep. Mike Simpson, who ended the quarter with the smallest campaign warchest of the four, nevertheless transferred $20,000 to the Na

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Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson optimistic about 'grand bargain' on budget

2013-05-03T01:00:00Z

...GOP Rep. Mike Simpson, who chairs a House Appropriations subcommittee, predicted Thursday that the debate coming this fall on raising the debt ceiling will spark a bipartisan compromise he's been working on for years. Because two-thirds of federal spend

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HUFFPOST HILL - Hot Mitch McConnell Action

2013-05-02T01:00:00Z

...that situation. AP: "LeFavour, the state's first openly gay lawmaker who ran unsuccessfully for Congress against Republican Mike Simpson last November, said she has fallen on tough times. Friends urged her to at least try to get benefits, she said ." Th

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Popkey: Simpson optimistic about budget deal, Risch less so

2013-05-02T01:00:00Z

...GOP Rep. Mike Simpson, who chairs a House Appropriations subcommittee, predicted Thursday that the debate coming this fall on raising the debt ceiling will spark a bipartisan compromise he’s been working on for years. Because two-thirds of federal spe

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Fingers point over flight delays - LaHood says it might get worse - Finance Chairman Baucus to retire - When does THUD work start?

2013-04-24T01:00:00Z

...“as soon as we get our allocations” from the full committee. When would that be? “September!” offered Interior cardinal Mike Simpson. “About as good a guess as any,” joked Latham as he stepped onto the balcony off the speaker’s lobby. SMAR

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Idaho Statesman Local News: Rocky Barker: Treat federal payments like property taxes on the federal owner

2013-04-22T01:00:00Z

...Brandt and Hintze should not have to go begging to the feds to pay for basic services in their counties. Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson told E&E Reporter's Phil Taylor recently that a budget deal that would fund the county payments and the Land and

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President's monument power questioned

2013-04-17T01:00:00Z

...Fort Monroe would still be uncertain," said Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va. Idaho supporters of legislation championed by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson to protect the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains as wilderness are now turning to the Obama administration to protect th

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Labrador renews push to require congressional approval for national monument designations

2013-04-17T01:00:00Z

...that Labrador and others talked about Tuesday. Meanwhile, Idaho supporters of legislation championed by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, to protect the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains as wilderness are now turning to the Obama administration to protect th

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Does the Fate of Immigration Reform Depend on This Idaho Congressman?

2013-04-16T01:00:00Z

...on insubordination. After he refused to vote to reelect Boehner, he earned a lashing from Idaho's senior congressman, Mike Simpson, who suggested that by refusing to vote, the upstart politician had done irreparable damage to his reputation in Washingto

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Federal austerity hits home in the West

2013-04-15T01:00:00Z

...Health Services, a chronically under-funded agency that enjoyed meaningful budget bumps recently thanks to champions like Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, wasn't exempted from the sequester like veterans' and children's health programs were -- an accidental

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Rocky Barker: Kempthorne followed GOP tradition on monuments

2013-04-15T01:00:00Z

...Interior document listing several areas worthy of further protection was leaked, 15 House Republicans, including Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson, urged more openness in the process. In 2011, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put out a public list of areas that des

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