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Congress has approved roughly $10.3 million in federal grant money to improve the main road in Big Sky. The TIGER grant is expected to add about seven left-turn lanes at key intersections along Lone Mountain Trail. The money will also pay for the construction of a pedestrian tunnel, road signs, extend an existing paved pedestrian trail and purchase four motor coaches and six vans to enhance transit service in Big Sky. U.S. Sen. Steve Daines announced the grant Tuesday afternoon. He said Gallatin County is leading the state in economic growth. “This grant will help the county meet the infrastructure

America’s National Parks face an $11.3 billion maintenance backlog. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and a group of other lawmakers have a proposal to fill it. The National Park Restoration Act would deposit a portion of revenues from energy production on federal lands into a fund for upkeep and repairs. Several senators and representatives from both parties are backing the bill. They joined Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke in presenting the bill Wednesday morning. In a press release, Daines described it as “a commonsense step forward to ensure that the challenges facing our national parks are finally addressed.” Each year,

At a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke welcomed Montana Senator Steve Daines along with Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander and six other senators to propose legislation use revenues from energy production on federal lands to help pay for the over $11 billion maintenance backlog at the parks. Senator Alexander introduced the concept. “What we’re announcing today is a bipartisan proposal supported by the President of the United States and the Office of Management and Budget that over the next ten years could eliminate the $11.6 billion dollar deferred maintenance backlog in the

Today during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee meeting, members voted to include six of U.S. Senator Steve Daines’ bills to protect Americans’ privacy. Improving cyber security will ensure the responsible use of taxpayer dollars in the Department of Homeland Security Reauthorization Act. “As Americans continue to face threats at home and abroad, we must make sure we continue to innovate cyber technologies to protect Americans’ security,” said Daines. Protecting Montanans’ privacy has always been a top priority and I will continue working to ensure the government does not tread on that fundamental right.” During the Committee meeting,

U.S. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Todd Young (R-IN), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Steve Daines (R-MT) joined several colleagues in introducing the U.S. Senate version of a bipartisan bill to beef up anti-violence measures in America’s schools. The Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act of 2018 would authorize $75 million to fund evidence-based school safety programs and practices for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 and $100 million annually for the following 10 years thereafter, among other provisions, according to a joint statement released by the senators on March 5

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Steve Daines and eight other senators are throwing their support behind an ambitious plan to rebuild roads, bridges and other aging systems in Glacier and other National Parks. It’s a plan that aims to tackle the $11 billion maintenance backlogs in the parks. It doesn’t take long to see the growing problems with the infrastructure on a visit to Glacier National Park. It’s not just that the park is having a hard time keeping up with the crowds from the record breaking crowds in recent years. The parks are simply wearing out. On many of the park’s

BILLINGS — Montana U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte has drafted two bills proposing to release almost 690,000 acres (279,000 hectares) of wilderness study areas in Montana. One of Gianforte’s bills echoes Montana Sen. Steve Daines’ bill introduced in the Senate late last year. It proposes to release 449,500 acres (182,000 hectares) of wilderness study areas all on national forest lands. The Billings Gazette reports that Gianforte also authored a separate act to release an additional 240,000 acres (97,000 hectares) of Bureau of Land Management wilderness. Gianforte says the land has been in limbo for as long as 40 years, stuck in

Companies that are victims of cyberattacks increasingly find themselves also targeted by plaintiffs’ lawyers, who bring lawsuits alleging their security measures were negligent. Anthem Inc. last year agreed to pay $115 million to customers affected by an attack believed to have been perpetrated by a foreign government. Computer chip manufacturers have faced dozens of lawsuits based on the mere prospect that consumers will suffer damage from hacking. Such lawsuits are more than a costly nuisance. They paralyze security innovation and expansion. Fortunately Sen. Steve Daines of Montana has introduced a bill that can stem this tide by clarifying that an

U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines released the following statement after his bipartisan amendment to promote tribes’ access to national criminal databases passed the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. This amendment, which supports tribes’ participation in the Tribal Access Program (TAP), is part of his greater effort to reduce the number of native women and girls who go missing or are murdered. “We must curb the tragic epidemic of native women and girls who go missing or are murdered and strengthen tribes’ ability to keep their citizens safe,” said Daines. “Sovereignty and security go hand in hand.” The bipartisan

KALISPELL – Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) made a stop at a Kalispell business on Tuesday touting the impact of recently passed tax-cut laws. Best Buy was one of the many big companies that passed some of their tax savings onto employees after cuts were approved. Sen. Daines voted in the bill’s support and helped champion the Senate Tax Cuts and Job Act. The visit is the first stop of a four-day tour for Sen. Daines, who will visit 17 counties across the state. Sen. Daines says that Best Buy’s three Montana locations employ over 200 Montanans, making them a great example of the new tax regulation’s