Steve Daines

I represent the State of Montana.

The new source performance standards for new coal-fired power plants all but ensures that there will never be--never be--another coal-fired power generator financed or constructed in this country.

Its importance to my local community is evidenced by its local support. This comes from the people themselves.

This bill will sustain our local economy and strengthen long-term community stability.

I now ask you to provide the same support to my community and my State as our neighbors to the north have received from their government.

This bill has huge community support. It will create jobs, and it will conserve and preserve this very important resource we have in the desert.

At no cost to the American taxpayer, and in no loss in production of minerals, and in no loss in timber harvests and grazing rights, the North Fork Watershed Protection Act protects multiple use in a special part of our State from future…

we appreciate Congressman Daines's leadership to advance this important legislation.

I can say this: That list of supporters does not often agree on much, but we agree on this.

Agreement in our Government seems far gone these days. However, today, despite the dark clouds over DC, perhaps there is a silver lining.

I think it would without a doubt have a detrimental effect on our local economy.

I think it helps to support those continued uses.

I have no more questions, Mr. Chairman.

been in agreement and working to do the right thing for Montanans

It is a bill I have introduced called the North Fork Watershed Protection Act.

H.R. 2259 is necessary to uphold the United States' end of that bargain.

My support for this bill marks the first time in almost 30 years that the Montana delegation, House and Senate, have supported public lands legislation in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion, and we are hoping to get this bill across the…

We applaud the bipartisan supporters of this legislation for recognizing the importance of preserving the clean water.

I stand in strong support for the legislation that will reopen our national parks in this country, and I speak as a fifth-generation Montanan. I speak also as a voice of the people from the State of Montana who know that our national parks…

I am writing to express ConocoPhillips' support for H.R. 2259, the North Fork Watershed Protection Act of 2013.

I want to thank the gentlelady from Minnesota. In fact, my family roots in Montana began in Minnesota. My great- great-grandmother was in Minnesota. She came from Norway and then pushed westward. I think she heard the skiing was a little…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of title I, page 17, after line 23, add the following new section: SEC. 106. ANNUAL REPORT. (a)…

I respect the comments made by the gentleman from Oregon; but when we look at the State of Montana and see a 90 percent reduction in forest timber harvest on national forestlands, and when we hear from the Forest Service officials the…

I just would say that, as I've been back here, moving from the private sector to the public sector, sometimes you have got to lay out in specificity the need for a one-page summary of what's going on so that Members and anybody else that…

I urge my colleagues to join me in support of making our forests healthier, and for the adoption of my amendment. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment. The Acting…