Steve Daines

I'm concerned though this all of the above energy portfolio that's described, sometimes we hear a message from the Administration it's all of the above except for coal and oil and even sometimes natural gas.

I hope you will take a look at all the treaty rights, not only the West coast tribes, but also the treaty rights of impacted tribes including the Crow.

I think there is great anxiety and concern back home. Folks back home are seeing this as an ideological threat.

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as a father of four, I am deeply concerned by the very need for legislation like S. 295, the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act. It is appalling that even a single one of our children is subject to such base…

I am running out of time. I wanted to make sure I asked this question, though, and this is as a father of four children.

So I get to represent the great state of Montana, and one of the things I will hear is when a bureaucrat flies into Montana from D.C. and they say they are there to help, we get really scared about that.

Unlike the glacial speed of D.C., you all are living in a very different world than the Beltway here in Washington.

It is a profound issue we have to deal with here I think as a country as parents around how do we protect our children in this evolution.

If we only have one way out, it is nice to have multiple choices here and so forth to ensure we protect our economic interests.

I think we talked about the need for state-of-the-art productivity and automation and so forth.

If we cannot get the harvest to market, then we really cannot realize the great potential of our ag industry.

I completely agree that we need to continue to invest if we are going to maintain our global competitiveness.

When we lose the ability to deliver, our customers will look elsewhere to find those same products.

In Montana, our number one industry is agriculture. It is about a $5 billion industry, just last year.

It should not take 10-12 years to do an EIS statement on a bridge.

If something does not happen soon, we will have no choice but to reduce our current hiring plans and potentially lay off some of our current staff.

80 percent of Montana's wheat is exported. Nearly a billion dollars in 2013, and primarily through the West Coast ports.

This morning, 80 million Anthem health insurance customers woke up to learn their personal identifiable information could have been stolen.

I think the consumer has the right to know about that sooner than perhaps waiting a week as we try to walk the fine line here of law enforcement and not creating a mountain out of a mole hill.

I think it is probably in the eyes of the beholder sometimes.

I think as we lean one way or the other on this, I would just urge us to lean toward a quicker response, defining that.

Last year in the House I offered an amendment that would strengthen victim notification requirements.

I would hope to continue to work on this issue of trying to establish what we think would be without unreasonable delay and trying to perhaps put better guardrails on that.

I think frankly that is unacceptable and that the customers, the consumers in this country, should be served better than that.