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WASHINGTON, DC –The Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to override President Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. Senators Jon Tester, Steve Daines and Congressman Ryan Zinke all voted in favor of overriding Obama’s veto of “Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.” Lawmakers overrode the veto in a 97-1 vote. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, was the only lawmaker to oppose the override. The House is expected to vote to override the veto within the next day.  This could mark the first time Congress could successfully override a veto from Mr. Obama.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican freshmen have seen enough to know that the way Congress approaches the federal budget is broken. And a prospective fix one of them is unveiling Thursday is nothing short of radical — at least by the standards of the often creaky Senate. Georgia Republican David Perdue is proposing to break down the wall between authorizing and appropriating — a way of doing business that, by design, would upend the 1974 Budget Act. The proposal would merge authorizing committees and appropriations subcommittees, according to a fact sheet provided to Roll Call. For instance, the Health, Education, Labor

U.S. Senator Steve Daines announced Wednesday $1.2 million in funding for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Inc. in Lame Deer to address domestic violence and improve safety for Indian women. “I am committed to ensuring American Indian women have access to the resources they need to feel safe in their communities,” Daines stated. Paula Julian, Policy Specialist National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, said: “We are honored and humbled to continue to serve as the National Indian Resource Center addressing domestic violence and the safety of Native women. We look forward to continuing to work with tribes, tribal coalitions, Native organizations,

Sen. Steve Daines, the only Bobcat in Congress, returned to his alma mater last weekend to participate in homecoming festivities on Saturday, Sept. 24. Daines graduated from MSU in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. After spending 13 years working for Procter & Gamble both domestically and abroad, he returned to Bozeman and worked for his family’s construction business and later as an executive for RightNow Technologies, a company founded by current Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte. He then transitioned from industry to politics and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 and the Senate

A group of Republican senators are at odds with their House counterparts over a 5-decade-old conservation and recreation program. Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Steve Daines of Montana were part of a recent letter supporting permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund in energy reform legislation (E&ENews PM, Sept. 26). Both of them were members of the House during the last Congress and don’t appear shy about opposing House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and his allies, who are pressing to overhaul the LWCF. “It’s all part of the process,” Daines said during a brief interview