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Fully KeptAgriculture / Trade

Committed to support free and fair trade that opens export markets for Idaho agricultural products and protects farmers from predatory practices.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 80%

All three cited sources hold up under adversarial verification and support a FULL (not CHAMPIONED) rating of this broad two-prong promise. PRONG A ("support free and fair trade that opens export markets for Idaho ag products"): the Senate roll-call primary confirms Risch voted Yea on H.R. 5430 (USMCA), which passed 89-10 on Jan. 16, 2020; the quote "Risch (R-ID), Yea" appears verbatim. USMCA is a concrete ratified outcome that opened/preserved markets for Idaho's top ag exports. Capital Press confirms Risch cosponsored the specialty-crop reporting bill targeting tariff/non-tariff barriers and export opportunities (the article lists King, Risch, Cantwell, Collins, Slotkin — matching the rating's substance, though the rating's quote is slightly reworded from the article's "Co-sponsors are Sens. Angus King... Jim Risch..."). PRONG B ("protects farmers from predatory practices"): S.912 (119th) — congress.gov returned 403, but web-search corroboration confirms the "Securing American Agriculture Act" was introduced by Ricketts with Risch as a cosponsor, directing USDA to assess U.S. ag dependency on China (a foreign-adversary/predatory-dependency protection). The CHAMPIONED downgrade is correct: Risch was a voter on USMCA and a cosponsor — not lead author — on both bills (Ricketts led S.912; King/Crapo led the specialty-crop bill), so primary-leadership evidence is absent. Minor deductions from the claimed 0.85: source-2 quote is a paraphrase rather than verbatim, and prong B's "predatory practices" match is a somewhat loose fit to a China-supply-chain bill. Neither undermines the underlying, primary-anchored outcome.

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