United States Senator Mike Crapo - Idaho

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*DROPPING IN THIS ISSUE...**

-- Preventing Obnoxious
Robocalls

-- Hearing from Idahoans

-- Ensuring Financial Security for Rural
Counties

-- Secretary Carson's Visit to Idaho (?)

-- What I'm
Reading



**Ensuring Financial Security for Rural
Counties**

This month, I joined a bipartisan group of my Senate colleagues to
introduce legislation [link 1] that would reauthorize the Payment in Lieu of
Taxes (PILT) program for ten years.
The PILT program provides
critical resources to nearly 1,900 counties across 49 states.
Counties have
used these payments for more than 40 essential county
services.
Idaho's rural counties depend on this funding for vital functions like law
enforcement, emergency response, public health and critical
transportation infrastructure.

The federal government does not pay local
property taxes, which makes rural counties containing large swaths of
federally-owned land face tough financial decisions.
Our legislation
would provide much-needed stability to these counties so they can budget
appropriately according to expected revenue and provide these
essential services to local citizens and taxpayers.
I look forward to
continue working in a bipartisan manner to end the financial uncertainty
thousands of rural counties face nationwide.

*Preventing Obnoxious
Robocalls*

In response to Idahoans contacting my office with concerns
regarding robocalls [link 2], I am working to get to the root of the
problem by introducing S. 2204 [link 3], the Data Analytics Robocall
Technology (DART) Act.
This bipartisan legislation, which I introduced
with Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), would establish a pilot
program at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand its
efforts to combat robocalls by blocking calls that fail authentication
technology and procedures used to prevent caller ID spoofing, while
allowing emergency service alert calls to remain uninterrupted and not
expanding the capabilities of voice service providers to collect or share
data.
S. 2204 would also provide a pathway for appeals for calls
unintentionally blocked that might be otherwise allowable under law.

In
a wave of robocalls, spoofers have adopted a 'neighborhood' tactic in
which electronic robocallers use fake local numbers as cover to reach
unsuspecting recipients, even if the robocall is sent from outside the
United States. Our bipartisan bill [link 4] would empower voice
service providers to identify and block suspected illegal calls before they
ever reach a consumer's device.

*Hearing From Idahoans*

Being
back in Idaho always recharges the energy I need while in Washington,
D.C.
While on the August state work period, I had the chance to meet
with many Idahoans.
I held *29 *unincorporated town meetings [link
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Topics discussed during these meetings ranged from investigating the
personal data of Americans being gathered against their wishes to new
privacy and financial concerns driven by the actions of corporations
such as Facebook.
Other topics that came up were the legislation I
just introduced to limit robocall phone calls, the country's new job
creation, the economy and tax reform and the record number of federal
judges being approved by the U.S. Senate.
During my time in Idaho, I had
the privilege of honoring Latah County Sheriff Richard Skiles with
the Spirit of Idaho Award [link 6] for helping residents of a mobile
home park amid a local disaster event.
I also presented the City of
Carey with a Congressional Record Statement in honor of its Centennial
Celebration.

**Photos **

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*Senator Crapo at
Gooding Town Meeting*



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*Senator** Crapo
Celebrating** Carey, Idaho, Centennial*



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*Senator Crapo with Students of Cavendish Elementary
School*



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*Senator Crapo with
Sheriff Richard Skiles, winner of the Spirit of Idaho Award*

**WHAT
I HAVE BEEN READING**



*The Great Idaho Do-Over [link
11]*

*By James Freeman, The Wall Street Journal, May 16,
2019*

Inaugurated just four months ago, Gov. Brad Little (R., Idaho) has unexpectedly
been given the chance of a political lifetime. The state's legislature
has recently given him enormous discretion to reduce the power and
discretion exercised by his government.

*INL to help power next
year's Mars mission* [link 12]

*By Nathan Brown, Post Register, May 20,
2019*

When the next Mars rover launches into space in July 2020, it
will be powered by a piece of Idaho. The radioisotope power system
that powers the rover, a vehicle that can land on and explore the
surface of Mars, will be assembled and tested at the Materials and Fuels
Complex at Idaho National Laboratory . . . The next rover, which has yet
to be named, is planned for launch in July 2020 and is expected to
land on Mars in February 2021. Due to the alignment of Earth, Mars and
the sun, a new rover can only be launched in a three-week window every
26 months, which drives NASA's, and in turn INL's, timetable.

*A
Vulnerable U.S. Really Does Need a Space Force* [link 13]

*By Jim
Sciutto, The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2019*

A "Star Wars"-like
space service is an easy comic target, but Mr. Trump has a point. U.S.
commanders are deadly serious about the need to confront the new threats
in space. Call it what you like--Space Force or a better-resourced
version of the existing Air Force Space Command--but one thing is clear:
War is coming to space, and the U.S. must prepare for it.

*Inside
the mass invasion of your privacy* [link 14]

By Kim Hart and Sara
Fischer, Axios, March 9, 2019

The grand bargain of the digital age,
in which consumers have traded their data for free services, is coming
apart. And it may be too late to regain control of the personal data
that's been bought, sold and leaked all over the web for the past three
decades.



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Contact
Information:

Website:

Offices:
239 Dirksen Senate
Building
Washington D.C., 20510
Phone: (202) 224-6142

Idaho Falls
410 Memorial
Drive
Suite 205
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
Phone: (208) 522-9779


Boise
251 East Front Street
Suite 205
Boise, ID 83702
Phone: (208)
334-1776

Lewiston
313 'D' Street
Suite 105
Lewiston, ID 83501

Phone: (208) 743-1492

Caldwell
524 East Cleveland
Blvd.
Suite 220
Caldwell, ID 83605
Phone: (208) 455-0360

Pocatello
275
South 5th Avenue
Suite 100
Pocatello, ID 83201
Phone: (208)
236-6775

Coeur d' Alene
610 Hubbard Street
Suite 209
Coeur d'
Alene, ID 83814
Phone: (208) 664-5490

Twin Falls
202 Falls
Avenue
Suite 2
Twin Falls, ID 83301
Phone: (208) 734-2515


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