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Senator Steve Daines met with local firefighters in Bozeman to announce steps he’ll  take to represent the needs of professional and volunteer firefighters across the state. Daines explained how he will address safety for first responders. “We need to honor these men and women, these firefighters, support them and make sure they are taken care of,” said Daines.  Senator Steve Daines announced in Bozeman that he will be joining the Congressional Fire Services Caucus. This is one of the largest caucuses in Congress and members work to support first responders in their Congressional district.  “In Montana we have so many volunteer firefighting

Our nation is at war with radical Islamic terrorism, which continues to threaten Americans at home and abroad. The terrorist attack in Orlando was carried out by a terrorist who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, a sobering reminder that the Islamic State is spreading a message of radical hate around the world to attract new recruits and inspire attacks as it continues to fight in places like Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan. To win the war against the Islamic State and defeat their radical Islamic ideology, we need a comprehensive and thoughtful strategy. Unfortunately, President Obama’s strategy for combating

Workers changing jobs would have an easier time keeping track of their retirement plans, under bipartisan legislation introduced this week by Sens. Steve Daines and Elizabeth Warren. Daines and Warren, D-Mass, said the measure would create an online database allowing Americans to keep track of their 401(k)s and other retirement accounts. The “Retirement Savings Lost and Found Act” would allow workers to more easily invest abandoned accounts into higher-yielding ones such as mutual funds or Treasury securities instead of money markets. “This would help Americans if you are just starting out in the workforce or (are) a senior citizen who

Montana Senator Steve Daines’ Tribal Forestry Participation and Protection Act passed through the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Senator Daines explained how the bill aims to improve the health of Montana Forests on both federal and tribal lands. “It’s incredible how tribes will spread their resources thin and they are still better managers of their forests That’s why I recently introduced the Tribal Forestry Participation and Protection Act,” Daines said. “Our forests are failing and we must visit new and innovative ways to improve forest health.” Several tribes have expressed their support for the bill. “The Confederate of Salish

Fresh off the heels of Wednesday’s announcement by Weyerhaeuser that they’ll be closing their lumber and plywood mills in Columbia Falls due to a lack of logs, U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) announced that a bill to improve the health of both Indian and federal forest land recently passed the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. This action on the Daines-backed measure follows a June 8, 2016 legislative hearing in the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.  “The status quo on federal lands is unacceptable and costing Montanans good paying jobs,” Daines stated. “We must pursue every tool available to make our forested lands healthier and get more

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has allocated Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) funds, according to Montana Senator Steve Daines. That will give the Ravalli County budget a $2 million boost, according to the DOI website chart of PILT payments. The money is paid to counties where there is a large amount of federal land, such as the Bitterroot National Forest. The money, based on total federal acreage, is used for essential services. Ravalli County’s payment is $2,238,057, third highest in Montana, behind Flathead County’s $2,532,000 and Lewis and Clark County’s $2,398,000. Missoula County will receive $1,687,735. Statewide, over