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U.S. Senator Steve Daines, on Monday, announced $3.2 million in funding for two north central Montana health providers. The funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was included in a Labor and HHS Appropriations Bill. The Cascade County Health Department will get just over $1.5 million. The Glacier Community Health Center in Cut Bank will receive almost $1.7 million. “Montana’s community health centers are integral to providing high quality, low cost healthcare close to home,” Daines stated. “Great Falls and Cut Bank will continued to be well-served by these community health centers.”

Two northcentral Montana health agencies will share $3.2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said Monday. The Cascade City-County Health Department in Great Falls will receive $1,558,934 and Glacier Community Health Center Inc. in Cut Bank will get $1, 685,166, Daines said. The funding was from the bipartisan FY2017 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Bill. Daines said Montana’s community health centers are integral to providing high-quality, low-cost health care close to home.

U.S. SENATE — Last Friday, U.S. Senator Steve Daines announced that an agreement has been reached to open Chinese markets to U.S. beef no later than July 16, 2017. A formalized agreement is expected to be reached in the coming weeks.  “Opening Chinese markets to U.S. beef is a win for Montana’s producers,” Daines stated. “With over 95 percent of the world’s consumers living outside of the U.S., access to foreign markets is critical to growing good-paying jobs and maintaining Montana’s strong economy. In a state where there are nearly three times as many cattle as people, opening Chinese markets

The old adage, “The clothes make the man,” could be paraphrased for Montana politicians and candidates as “The hat makes the man.”  Or not. Perhaps in no other state as Montana does headgear carry so much weight for a political figure. This has been especially borne out during the race to fill the U.S. House seat vacated by Ryan Zinke. It could be argued that hats, or lack thereof, have been the subtext of the campaign. Democratic candidate Rob Quist is never seen without a cowboy hat, either in his ads or in public. It does seem a natural fit

Both of Montana’s U.S. senators are praising Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s decision to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate any potential ties between President Donald Trump’s associates and Russia. Rosenstein made the appointment Wednesday, saying he “determined that it is in the public interest” to have Mueller, a 12-year veteran of the FBI, take over the bureau’s investigation. The decision has since received strong support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines said Mueller’s unblemished reputation made him an ideal candidate for the job, even though Daines did