Steven Daines actually said...

"What I think would helpful is I know some of my Montana producers have expressed concerns that the Department simply played out the clock by not identifying the mitigations until after the labor dispu..."

"So we were just curious why they were not these plans put in place when this disruption of inspections occurred."

"Last summer, the USDA failed to conduct federally mandated grain inspections at the Port of Vancouver."

"The tax revenue of coal production in Montana is $118 million a year."