U.S. Sen. Jon Tester called on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to investigate the attack Saturday against former President Donald Trump.
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines introduced a series of bills during the past two weeks that seek to force the restart of coal mining on federal land in the Bull Mountains and could put coal money back into the hands of the Crow Tribe as part of a revenue sharing agreement that would involve a land swap.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated seven individuals to federal courts, including one in the U.S District Court for the District of Montana, prompting mixed reactions from Sens. Jon Tester and Steve Daines.
Montana's two U.S. Senators on Wednesday split their vote on a GOP attempt to hold an impeachment trial for Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, though both called upon the Biden administration to address ongoing issues at the southern border.
Just months before the program is set to expire, both of Montana’s U.S. senators voted Thursday to pass a standalone bill that would extend and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include Montanans affected by nuclear testing in Nevada decades ago.
The measure left authors of the bill asking how Republicans could sink legislation their own leadership had negotiated and signed off on earlier this week.
Thousands of Montanans are asking Sen. Steve Daines to hear them out regarding his bill to remove three areas of federal land from wilderness consideration.
Daines and U.S. Sen Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, both have demanded more information from the Biden administration about the balloon, the reasons it was carrying American technology, and the Department of Defense’s response.
Issues related to national security and the crisis in Israel remain top of mind for Montana's two senators, who agree in their support for Israel and the need to strengthen the southern border.