Republican · Senate · ID
James E. Risch
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide R000584.
James E. Risch is the Republican senator for the Senate from ID in the 119th Congress. The chart uses the October 2026 snapshot. The position is Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score of the roll calls. Color is the party label. The place is the votes.
The first dimension is 0.551, drawn as economics +55. That is right of center on economics. The second dimension is 0.383, drawn as authority +38. The other axis sits toward authority. Voteview’s second dimension is not a pure social axis. The chart uses the public file anyway, rather than inventing a different number.
Inside the Senate, this first-dimension score ranks 73 of 100 from the left. The first-dimension score is close to the Republican median in this chamber (0.56). The nearest other Senate scores are James C. Justice (Republican, 0.562), Mike Crapo (Republican, 0.505), Deb Fischer (Republican, 0.461). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://www.risch.senate.gov), under “Maintaining Peace through Strength,” says: “The federal government’s primary constitutional duty is to protect and defend the people, land, and resources of the United States of America.…” Those are the member’s words. They are not the same thing as the roll-call score.
One left-to-right score cannot say how James E. Risch would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide R000584.