Steve Daines

That is why the rail is so important to us.

In Montana we do see the moratorium on coal leasing as a direct assault on our state.

I am looking forward to working with you to upgrade those facilities there for the men and women who protect us every day.

as a fifth generation Montanan and engineer who worked at a cloud computing company for, 13 years, I have seen firsthand the opportunities created by advances in technology. As a father of four, I am aware of the huge role technology plays…

It is something that I know many of us on this committee care deeply about.

I appreciate it. It has taken quite a while to get here, and I think it needs to be a high priority.

I remember as we were raising our four children, sometimes it would be late at night with a sick child, and I would turn on ``Sesame Street'' with the child. I remember there was that ``One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others)'' song…

I thank the junior Senator from Alaska, and I appreciate him joining me in this most important effort and also for the leadership he has demonstrated on this issue. As the junior Senator from Alaska knows, the Ninth Circuit Court is…

Let us think about my home state of Montana and the importance of connectivity.

I am concerned this means spending money upgrading customers who already have service at the expense of consumers who may not have any service.

I would encourage my colleagues on this Committee and in Congress to ask themselves how can we, in good conscience, pass legislation to fix the VA but ignore the needs of the Indian Health Service?

American Indians and Alaska Natives are still waiting.

This is an unacceptable reality that both Congress and the Administration must work to fix.

I would like to begin by noting that on top of facing the bureaucracy of the Indian Health Service...

modernizing our Nation's energy policy is vital to protecting our national security. The bill that we are discussing today advances our Nation's energy independence and provides for new measures to defend our critical infrastructure…

the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 is a crucial step forward in modernizing our country's energy policy and public lands management for the first time in nearly a decade, and we are doing it in a strong, bipartisan fashion…

My concern with mandates in this domain, like so many others, is that they typically do more harm than they do good.

I have been hearing from some Montana truck drivers... that this rigid rule will create some unintended consequences.

What I would hope for is that... it is helpful to have that back-and-forth conversation around what could be unintended consequences.

One of the provisions that I helped champion in the highway bill was to review the FMCSA's Wireless Roadside Inspection, the WRI project.

How will you ensure that the regulations remain flexible enough so that truckers can make real-time decisions?

in 2005, the Federal Government enacted the REAL ID Act, imposing Federal standards established by the Department of Homeland Security to the production and issuance of States' driver's licenses and identification cards. This law was an…

The irony, to think that the President just moved forward with removing the ban on Iranian oil exports and we are the only nation in the world that still has a ban on its exports, I think cannot be overstated.

Our national security, protecting our families from terrible acts of terrorism, I can tell you, is on the minds of Montanans every day as I travel around the state.

we do not want politicians running this war; we want the U.S. military to run it. If we intend to destroy ISIS, let's destroy ISIS.