Risch Expected to Chair Senate Foreign Relations

Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is expected to become the committee’s chairman when Republicans take control of the Senate in January, a Senate aide said Nov. 8. As ranking member, Risch has urged the Biden administration to counter China’s material support for Russia’s war machine, curb Chinese purchases of Iranian oil and implement new sanctions on Iranian oil (see 2407300033). The current chairman, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., is retiring from the Senate.