Steve Daines

Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines serves on the U.S. Senate Committees on Finance, Energy and Natural Resources, Banking, and Indian Affairs. MTPR's Edward O’Brien caught up with Daines for a few minutes last week in between votes on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Members of Montana’s congressional delegation and local lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration for answers about the Chinese balloon currently moving eastward over the U.S.

Montana’s marijuana industry includes 432 dispensaries, employs more than 4,000 people and contributes millions of dollars in tax revenue.

A bill to allow cannabis business access to traditional banking services failed in Congress.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to expand health care benefits to millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. With a bipartisan 86 to 11 vote, the PACT Act can now head to the president’s desk.

Montana Sen. Steve Daines previously supported the bill but joined 41 other Republicans Wednesday to block the burn pit legislation over concerns of excess federal spending.

A bill to extend protected wilderness areas in western Montana failed to make it out of committee after U.S. Sen. Steve Daines voted against it last week.

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana is proposing legislation that he says would ease restrictions on some federally managed lands in the state. But the bill is being met with opposition from public lands advocacy groups.

While politicians continue to call for changes in federal policy to spark growth in the oil and gas industry, some analysts say the federal government has less of a role in ramping up oil production than political rhetoric would suggest.