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Capitol Lens | That’s Risch

(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

By Bill Clark

Posted January 28, 2026 at 4:08pm

Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, arrives for a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.

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