Steve Daines

I believe this policy needs to be reinstated.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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

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…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 24; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be approved…

I ask unanimous consent that the junior Senator from Montana be authorized to sign duly-enrolled bills or joint resolutions on Tuesday, February 23. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S965, February 23…

I rise to recognize Alee Lockman. Alee Lockman is the pride of Brockton, MT. In fact, Alee grew up on her family's wheat farm 10 miles north of Brockton in eastern Montana. Alee is also the pride of Froid High School, a classic high school…

My hope would be that as we look at where we are spending our dollars as it relates to foreign efforts is that we try to maintain a balance, and ensure that we are creating incentives to invest in clean-coal technology.

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.

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 6:14 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, February 24, 2016, at 9:30…

I would argue 0.02 degrees centigrade is negligible.

I think the message that industry is hearing from the Obama administration is that they are really pulling the rug out from under this industry.

I appreciate it. And just for perspective, Montana is a state, and we are not as big as Texas and Alaska, but you can put Chicago in one corner of our state and Washington, D.C., in the other.

I know somebody who takes the responsibility very seriously to manage the taxpayer dollars and be a steward of such.

Coal creates good paying Union and Tribal jobs and also, very importantly, affordable electricity prices.

On the three-year question, could you commit to us though that the review will not take any longer than three years?

Thank you all for testifying today. I am truly grateful, as a guy from Montana, to hear your rural perspectives.