Steve Daines

While the President recognizes the impact of Obamacare on many and has requested changes to other related provisions like the Cadillac tax, he fails to be concerned with the employer mandate's heavy impact on tribes in Indian Country.

I'm concerned about how long this is taking, as well as how much this is--how much it costs.

In Montana, tribes are getting hit with massive fines because of the Obamacare employer mandate.

I think we all agree collaborations should be encouraged, but I strongly believe more needs to be done to protect the collaboratives from this handful of fringe obstructionists who repeatedly sue and upend the hard work.

The bill we are debating today is an important step forward in helping to combat addiction and opioid abuse. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 20 percent of veterans with PTSD also have a substance abuse disorder. Let me…

It is important that the FDA remains focused on its mission to helping ensure the United States has a safe food supply and abstains from marketing or labeling mandates that would have no bearing on food safety.

If a biotech food product, like sugar beets in the example provided, is deemed by the FDA to be safe for human consumption, meet the same quality standards as a non-biotech, and is nutritionally and essentially the same as a non-biotech…

Moving forward, it is critical that Washington not get in the way and push policies that have the potential to hinder or even discriminate against ag research and technology.

Yeah, it is good to have a doctor running it. Thank you, and I agree with you.

So as a food safety agency, it sounds like you would believe, and I do not want to put words in your mouth, but do you believe the FDA should make its decisions based on sound science rather than unsubstantiated claims that might not be…

I do believe the USDA's priority should be with making determinations based on sound science regarding the safety of biotech products within its jurisdiction, not on marketing or mandatory labeling efforts that really have no bearing on…

I view biotech as essential to the future of our food supply.

There's plenty of vacancies available down there that we should be putting these enemy combatants there and holding them in a very secure and honorable way.

I think to be clear, a decision to implement mandatory labeling would then not be based on safety concerns or sound science, but on other factors?

Yesterday I joined Senators Gardner and Moran on a factfinding mission to Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay was a humble reminder of the services our military provides overseas to get these terrorists off the battlefield and ensure they don't…

I had that experience myself in the software business in Montana.

It's regulations and uncertainty. That's the one-two punch.

Many of these businesses only have a handful of employees and do not have armies of lawyers to wade through the thousands of pages of regulations.

I believe this policy needs to be reinstated.

The concern I hear back home is that we want to make sure the States' voices are heard in that process.

I would argue that the EPA power plan is having a tremendous impact right now in creating uncertainty there as well.

John Orizotti, most famously known as ``Pork Chop John,'' passed away on Monday in his Butte home at the age of 82. Montanans know John for his efforts to expand his restaurant's flourishing business. John bought Pork Chop John on 8 West…

Coming from a State like Montana, we have a third of the ICBMs in our State. We understand the power behind nuclear weapons and what is going on in North Korea I think greatly concerns all Americans.

As a proud Senator of the birth place of the Army Special Forces, the infamous Devil's Brigade from Fort Harrison back in the 1940s, thank you for your leadership to our Nation as well as to our States.

I would argue 0.02 degrees centigrade is negligible.