Steve Daines

You had shared a story with my office about a Native American veteran and the challenges he faced coordinating a heart valve insertion.

the Johnson-O'Malley program benefits thousands of tribal students across the state of Montana.

it's time to fix this problem by requiring our treaty health provider, the Indian Health Service, to start paying the VA based co-pays that our Indian veterans are entitled to.

I don't sense urgency in correcting this. What do we have to do to get this problem fixed quickly?

The fact that the Air Force can't physically secure our nuclear weapons makes me concerned...

I think that's unacceptable.

I appreciate your support, and I look forward to a briefing on that, Secretary Carter, as well.

Last month, the President held a nuclear summit here in Washington speaking about the need for our allies to protect their nuclear weapons.

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

Why are we doing this?

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.

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

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

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…

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…

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.

We've got to also I think have the right balance here, and I think strategically by working with us to develop clean coal technology is a better strategic bet.

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.

The benefit, arguably, is perhaps de minimis.

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?

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.

It sounds like D.C. math to me.