WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Steve Daines joined a group of his Republican Senate colleagues in a letter to President Biden urging the administration to withdraw its outrageous plan to block funding for Montana elementary and secondary school hunting and archery programs. The letter condemns the Biden administration's purposeful misinterpretation of last year's gun control bill to justify blocking funding for Montana schoo  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Steve Daines and Congressman Ryan Zinke sent a letter to Transportation Security Administration (TSA Administrator Pekoske urging the Biden administration to revoke a burdensome TSA employee screening policy that would add a significant strain to Montana airports. In a letter to TSA Administrator Pekoske, they wrote, "Ultimately, if implemented, the National Amendment would represent a fundamen  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Steve Daines and his Republican colleagues sent a letter to Secretaries Blinken and Yellen demanding answers from the Biden administration regarding the approximately $6 billion it released to Iran in exchange for American prisoners. In a letter to Secretaries Blinken and Yellen, the senators wrote, "When the Obama administration released $400 million in liquidated assets to Iran in 2016, we wa  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, issued the following statement on Aug. 22, 2023: * * * Today, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) released the following statement on a potential Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government before the September 30th funding deadline. "For far too long, Washington has been kicking the can down the road when it comes to ending their reckless spending spree, and once again, the DC Cartel is proposing a deal to continue putting u  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news and letter: U.S. Senator Jon Tester, Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, is calling on senior leaders at the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to take immediate action to address the findings of a recently-released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on improving guidance, access to care, and training for ser  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2023: U.S. Senator Jon Tester today secured $458,123 to strengthen the Blackfeet Tribe's energy grid and decrease the frequency and duration of electrical outages on the Reservation. This funding comes from the Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants program which Tester secured as part of his bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Tester was the only member of Montana's c  more