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Watch Daines’ remarks HERE. “I do find it a bit humorous when you hear Kamala Harris talk about ‘on day one’ to translate three and a half plus years. That’s over 1,300 day ones that she’s had so far.  “But I’ll tell you what she has been doing. This Administration’s policies are harming our Montana way of life. “Let me give an example. Just last week, we got the terrible news that the Stillwater mine is laying off 700 miners. The mine is just south of Big Timber in Columbus, Montana. It’s a very important strategic mine for our country, because

Tracy Stone-Manning Defends Admin’s Goal to End Oil, Gas, Coal Production U.S. Senator Steve Daines today at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing delivered remarks taking President Biden’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning to task for the Administration’s radical anti-energy policies that are harming Montana families and communities. Watch Daines’ opening remarks HERE. “Director Stone-Manning, I would like to talk about the last three and a half years. This is the first time you are back in front of this Committee since your nomination hearing in June 2021. Since then, actions your agency has taken or failed

U.S. Senator Steve Daines, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, Congressman Ryan Zinke and Congressman Matt Rosendale today released the following statements after the Biden administration released a new Resource Management Plan Amendment prohibiting future coal leases in eastern Montana through 2038. “Since Day One the Joe Biden administration has been on an anti-energy war path in an attempt to appease far-Left environmental groups,” said Daines. “Shutting down future coal production in eastern Montana will jeopardize our energy independence, raise costs for families and kill good-paying jobs.” “Every action taken by the Biden administration is driving up the cost of affordable energy and threatening

Pausing U.S. LNG Export Permitting Panders to Radical Climate Activists at Expense of Working Families U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines, member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered the following opening statement today at the committee’s hearing examining the administration’s pause on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export approvals. Daines recently joined a letter with his Republican colleagues to President Biden and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm urging the administration to stop their shortsighted pause and immediately resume consideration of LNG Export applications. Below is a transcript of Daines’ statement: Watch Daines’ remarks HERE.  “I didn’t think I’d live to see the day where you’d

Joins Republican Colleagues in Criticizing Administration for Deliberately Pausing U.S. LNG Export Permitting in order to Pander to Radical Climate Activists U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines, member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, blasted the Biden administration for pausing all pending non-FTA export permit applications at the behest of the radical climate lobby. Daines joined a letter with 25 of his Republican colleagues to President Biden and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm ahead of a pending executive order to re-evaluate the criteria to approve permits for liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects. “We write to express