WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference where he highlighted the terror threat at the United States' southern border and demanded President Biden change policy, including tightening asylum standards, reforming the parole program and finishing the border wall. Daines also raised concerns about the rise of antisemitism in the U  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines today helped introduce the "Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act" to address persistent failures and increase accountability at the Indian Health Service (IHS). Consistent shortcomings, unmet staffing needs, lack of oversight and longstanding deficiencies at the IHS have resulted in significant gaps in Montana tribal citizens accessing high-quality  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines introduced the "Increasing Rightful Sentences Act" or the "IRS Act," to increase penalties for future unauthorized disclosures of confidential tax information. Introduction follows the news that after a more than two-year-long investigation, a former IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, pleaded guilty to stealing and leaking thousands of individuals' private IRS tax rec  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. SENATE - Senator Steve Daines helped introduce the "Protect Our Bases Act" to ensure the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) can review foreign land purchases near sensitive military, intelligence, and national laboratory sites by requiring member agencies to annually update and review their lists of these sites. "As President Biden's weakness on the world stage has emboldened   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines today introduced the "Standing Against Houthi Aggression Act" to redesignate Ansarallah, more commonly known as the Houthis, as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) given their actions to destabilize the region, the security threat they pose to the U.S. and most recently, their involvement in the ongoing conflict in Israel, including attacks on Israel this week. Today  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senator Steve Daines helped introduce bipartisan legislation to permanently raise the caps on overtime premium pay for federal wildland firefighters. The "Wildland Firefighter Fair Pay Act" would increase these overtime pay caps to appropriately compensate Forest Service and Department of the Interior wildland firefighters for the work they do. Despite risking their lives and traveling cro  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. SENATE - U.S. Senators Steve Daines (Mont.) and James Lankford (Okla.) led seven of their Republican colleagues in submitting a comment letter to the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) condemning the Office of Refugee Resettlement's (ORR) proposed "Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule," which blatantly violates prohibitions on the use of taxpayer funds to facilitate abortions on unac  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, issued the following news release: As a part of his continued work to protect hunter safety courses and Montanans' Second Amendment rights, U.S. Senator Jon Tester today spoke with outdoor industry leaders and hunters in Missoula to celebrate his bipartisan law that requires the Department of Education to restore school districts' ability to use federal resources for school archery, gun safety, and hunter education programs. "In Missoula and a  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) voted in favor of H.R. 4821 - Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2024. "This morning, I was proud to vote in favor of a bill that not only puts us on a path toward fiscal responsibility but also prioritizes Montana and upends the Left's Green New Deal agenda," said Rep. Rosendale. "Our national debt is over $33 tri  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) issued the following statement after reports that the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China shipped a strain of coronavirus, WIV1, to the National institute of Health Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, in 2018 for experiments. "Our government helped create the Wuhan flu, then shut the country down when it escaped from the lab," sai  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) and several House Republicans sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson urging him for a swift passage of the Farm Bill to provide the resources necessary to farmers and ranchers across America. "Farm and food security is national security," said Rep. Rosendale. "Supporting our farmers and ranchers across Montana has always been my priority, which is why   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) voted in favor of H.R. 6126, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, to provide Israel the resources it needs to defend itself against Hamas. This package is fully offset by recessions from the Inflation Acceleration Act of 2022, specifically Section 10301, which appropriated enhanced funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). "  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, issued the following news release on Oct. 30, 2023: U.S. Senator Jon Tester announced today that he secured $3 billion in disaster relief funding through the Farm Service Agency's (FSA) Emergency Relief Program (ERP) for commodity and special crop producers impacted by natural disasters in 2022. The funding will help offset the financial impacts of crop yield and value losses from qualifying disasters occurring in 2022. Tester has been a champ  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news: Speaking at a recent Senate Banking Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Jon Tester stressed the importance of protecting servicemembers, veterans, and their families from bad actors and scammers who see them as a payday. Servicemembers, veterans, and their families are targeted for scams and fraud at a higher rate than the civilian population. "The folks who are looking   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news: During a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing yesterday on research at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Chairman Jon Tester pressed VA officials to ensure rural veterans are benefiting from VA research efforts, particularly their mental health efforts, and expand opportunities the Department provides to researchers in rural America. "Rural America tends  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Foundation of Care: Examining Research at the Department of Veterans Affairs" at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2023, at 418 Russell Senate Office Building: WITNESS LIST * Rachel Ramoni, DMD, ScD, Chief Research and Development Officer, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs Accompanied by: * Patricia Hastings, DO, MPH, FACEP, RN, Chief Consultant, Health O  more