Idaho

Find out more about your senators below.

Larry Craig

In 1974, the people of Payette and Washington counties sent Senator Craig to the Idaho State Senate, where he served three terms before winning the 1980 race for Idaho's First District Congressional Seat. He was re-elected four times before winning the U.S. Senate election in 1990 and was re-elected to the Senate in 1996 and 2002.

Senator Craig is a member of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, which he chaired during the 109th Congress. He is also a member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, where he serves on the Subcommittee on Energy, the Subcommittee on Water and Power, and the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests.

With his appointment to the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Craig oversees funding on the following subcommittees: Agriculture; Energy and Water Development; Homeland Security; Labor, HHS, and Education; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; and Interior and the Environment. He is also a member of the Special Committee on Aging, which he chaired during the 107th and 108th Congresses, and the Committee on Environment and Public Works, where he serves on the Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children's Health Protection Subcommittee and the Superfund and Environmental Health Subcommittee.

As a Westerner and a former rancher, Senator Craig plays a leading role in the formation of natural resource and energy policies, and he has gained a national reputation as a stalwart against environmental extremism.

He is married to the former Suzanne Thompson. They have three children: two sons, Mike and Jay, a daughter, Shae, and seven grandchildren.

More...

Mike Crapo

Before being elected to the United States Senate in 1998, Mike served three terms as the 2nd District Representative for Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives. His public service began well before this at home in Idaho where he served in the Idaho State Senate from 1984 to 1992, and spent his final four years there in the position of Senate President Pro Tempore.

He was named a member of the Senate Budget Committee in 2003, which gives Idaho a steady voice in crafting the federal budget. In 2001, Mike became a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. At the beginning of his Senate service in 1998, Mike became a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Development Committee.

Mike's most recent committee assignment, earned at the beginning of his second term, is as a member of the Senate Finance Committee. Although no longer a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Mike has retained the priorities that he set while serving there, remaining heavily involved in issues ranging from updating and strengthening the Endangered Species Act to clean water to salmon recovery. Through his committee assignments, Mike promotes Idaho's essential energy research and development community. The Idaho National Lab (INL) is a major Eastern Idaho employer and center for national energy and defense research. Through Mike, Idahoans can count on their voices being heard in debates over national energy policy and nuclear safety.

More...