Steve Daines

We need to be sure the Administration stays in communication with the State and the Tribe over the practical implications of any settlement.

I was proud to get the Montana Water Rights Protection Act over the finish line to settle the CSKT's water claims.

I am committed to settling the long and very overdue water rights of the Fort Belknap Indian Community.

I agree with everyone's assessment that we need a settlement rather than litigation.

We need support from the tribes, local communities, and both State and Federal governments to ensure that we are doing right by the people of Fort Belknap.

It's crucial that we provide the necessary resources to our tribes.

So the question is, is that a reasonable deadline from the Administration's perspective?

The Administration left an untold number of Americans, some of our veterans' closest Afghan allies, behind enemy lines.

President Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has made our Nation less safe.

This reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan was completely bungled, mismanaged, and its harm to our national security will be seen and felt far beyond those tragic weeks that we saw in August.

this proposal, frankly, is chilling. It would require credit unions to report sensitive financial account information for nearly all of their customers.

This package would affect and kill hundreds of thousands of jobs, hurt economic growth in my home State of Montana, as well as across the country.

I fear inflation will persist, and the reduction in wages that workers are seeing as a result might indeed accelerate.

It is the largest tax increase in 50 years. It is the largest spending bill in the Nation's history.

If there is something that concerns many of us it is the loss of trust to the American people in their Government.

I am deeply concerned with the Biden administration's policies to curtail reliable base-load power that comes from coal, oil, gas.

I join my colleagues today in speaking out against the Democrats' very reckless $3.5 trillion--that is with a ``t''--tax-and-spending spree that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are rushing through Congress. They are going to make history if…

These anti-mining policies, they kill jobs in Montana, and they will further intensify the growing national security threat posed by our import dependence for these critical minerals.

This is having a real and direct impact on Montana, our jobs, our revenue for our communities, and for our state.

Do you think the United States should rely on China? I think China becomes the new, you know, OPEC, if you will, as it relates to critical minerals and that important supply chain.

These decisions include the continued ban of oil and gas lease sales in Montana, which is something I am very concerned about.

When this Administration continued to skirt the law, it means that Montana schools, our teachers, our communities receive less money, and that is unacceptable.

Montana small businesses are critically important for our jobs; for local economies; and, really, to bring our communities together. And through no fault of their own, many were hit very hard by the pandemic. Unfortunately, some Members on…

--to join me in voting for this amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.

I call up my amendment No. 3292 and ask that it be called up by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Montana [Mr. Daines]…