Steve Daines

The change in climate temperature for the world would be .02 degrees Centigrade between now and the year 2100 as a result of these regulations, which says it's a rounding error, and yet as we look at what impact it will have on the people…

To take American innovation out of the equation to let America lead in clean coal technology versus ceding it to the Chinese I think is a grave strategic mistake.

You're going to shut them all down with these regulations.

This is a big, big issue. And again the study says the single biggest economic impact to hit my State in over 30 years.

I just think we're making a grave mistake by killing the industry and taking away American innovation from boilermakers.

When I am told something is going to be on track, I expect it to be so.

Why are we doing this?

We don't see a path forward on this at the moment other than to have to literally look at shuttering our Colstrip Units 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Today we will take steps to secure our Montana heritage and ``Made in Montana'' jobs. We will stand up for the Montana way of life. Today we will pass a bill that for the first time would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water…

Your budget proposal includes $235 million for the EPA efforts to cut carbon pollution and greenhouse gases included in the Clean Power Plan.

But what that does is it creates a lot of uncertainty in understanding...

So net-net, in terms of we sit up here on this dais as U.S. Senators, ensuring we are responsible stewards of the American tax dollars, you are saying that we will lose money because of this, not make money.

We have to weigh tradeoffs in terms of a cost-benefit analysis.

How effective is the proposed rule in impacting global emissions in a meaningful way?

If I am sitting here thinking about investment, what is the net benefit in dollars to the American taxpayer based on your math?

If there's no intention, why not keep it fixed?

The benefit, arguably, is perhaps de minimis.

It sounds like D.C. math to me.

I appreciate Senator Barrasso's efforts to address tribal dam maintenance backlog through the DRIFT Act.

Supporting tribal infrastructure and needs is crucial to upholding the U.S. Government's trust responsibility to Indian tribes.

I am extremely concerned about the threat they pose to the homeland.

Americans are the most generous people in the world when it comes to humanitarian aid and contributing to relief efforts that span the globe.

What would you say is the most effective way, if you were tell this committee, where we can invest American taxpayer dollars to ensure that we don't lose a generation of these Syrian children?

If you had to kind of stack rank, and I realize perfection is never going to be attainable, but certainly there are better outcomes than others, what country stands out perhaps as a model saying this has been an example of success?

That is where we control one-third of the nation's ICBMs.