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On the recordMay 10, 2017
today our friends across the aisle have decided to hold up Senate committee meetings. Because the Democrats object to the dismissal of James Comey from the FBI, they have chosen to play politics and prevent scheduled hearings from occurring. That means everyone who has taken time to fly to Washington, DC, to testify before Congress--per our request--and update us on important issues that face the Nation will not be heard. One of those scheduled hearings is in the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power, of which I am a member. This hearing was going to investigate the Dry-Redwater and the Musselshell- Judith Rural Water Systems. This is a critically important issue to Montana. This hearing was going to focus on water from Circle, MT. These are water samples from different families in the Circle, MT, area. This is from the Arensons' tap. This yellow-tinted water here is from the Goods' tap. This cloudy sample here is from the Hances' tap. These are all from Circle, MT. This is from the Carlsons' tap. You probably can't see it--perhaps on camera and on the floor--but there is particulate in here, floating, something you wouldn't want to drink. This is water from the Rosaaens' tap. These samples all came from a small town in Eastern Montana, Circle, MT, and the image here to my left is from Roundup, MT. This unacceptable, unclean tap water is in the homes of Montanans and North Dakotans right now as we speak.…
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Steve Daines
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