Steve Daines

I would like to wish a very warm welcome to two Montana Tribal leaders we have with us today.

The success of the Land Buy-Back Program is essential for the future of tribal communities.

In fact, I cited unemployment rates on the Blackfeet Reservation as an example of the challenges we face in Montana which lead to poverty.

I think that needs to be continued to be talked about.

In 2003, Congress mandated the Next Generation Air Transportation System known as NextGen, transitioning our radar-based system with radio communication to a satellite-based one, to increase safety and efficiency. NextGen deployment has…

I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the message to accompany S. 1550. The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 1550). entitled…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:42 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, December 1, 2016, at 9:30…

I thank my colleague from Oregon, Senator Wyden, for talking about this important issue on the floor today. We shop online with our credit cards, order medicine with our electronic health care records, talk to friends, share personal…

In 28 years in the private sector, I never received a letter from the human resource department that said that my information had been hacked, until I became a Federal employee, was elected to the U.S. Congress.

Montanans have always been on the cutting edge of frontier medicine, using ingenuity to overcome the challenges in frontier and rural America to make sure we have access to high- quality health care. In fact, going back to the time my…

In the Senate, we often talk about what we need to do to ensure the U.S. maintains leadership.

As someone who spent over a decade in the private tech sector, I know firsthand the challenges our country faces when it comes to cyber criminals. Technology has made it easier than ever for bad actors to steal identities, distribute…

Fifty-four percent of automobile fatalities occur on rural roads despite the fact that just 19 percent of Americans live in rural areas.

As a 5th generation Montanan, we have a lot of open space, a lot of roadways.

I think that's one of the political concerns we hear.

Many consumers no longer have confidence in the government.

I thank Senator Perdue for his leadership. What an honor it is to be down here on the Senate floor surrounded by freshmen--the freshmen Republican class. We have the Presiding Officer, Freshman Cory Gardner from Colorado; Lt. Col. Dan…

Entrepreneurship is a bedrock of Montana, a relationship well understicod by the Small Business Administration, SBA. In fact, the SBA recognizes over 115,000 small businesses in the state, making up 97.4 percent of all businesses. These…

The travel and tourism industry plays a significant role in the U.S. economy. Travel and tourism contributed over $480 billion to the U.S. GDP last year. In Montana, tourism is one of our leading industries. Every year, visitors spend over…

For Montanans, gunsmithing goes hand-in- hand with hunting and sport shooting. Sometimes the difference between a successful hunt and an unfulfilled tag can be a needed modification on a rifle. Throughout Montana and across America…

The SAFE KIDS Act provides clarity in what companies can and cannot do with student data collected in schools.

As we all know, it's somewhat remarkable, we all--our technology Help Desks now are typically our children when we want to get something fixed or corrected or an app adjusted.

Protecting the privacy and security of our kids' data, I believe, is critical in today's world.

As we say in Montana, we are a blend of Merle Haggard and John Denver, and we would like to bring those two melodies together.

Before my time here in Congress, President Obama and the Department of the Interior proposed designating the Northern Prairies as a national monument.