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https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/steve-daines

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2021500Sung Confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)Judiciary

2021459Restoring the Voting Rights ActJustice and Democracy

2021426Pérez Confirmation (Second Circuit Court of Appeals)Judiciary

2021420Voting Rights and Democracy ReformsJustice and Democracy

2021401Stone-Manning Confirmation (BLM Director)Other, Public Lands/Forests

2021357Build Back Better Budget ResolutionClimate Change, Clean Energy, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests

2021346Promoting Polluting Energy SourcesDirty Energy, Climate Change, Air

2021320Eliminating Safeguards on Fossil Fuel ProductionDrilling, Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Oceans, Public Lands/Forests

2021303Defunding the Civilian Conservation Corps and Wildland FirefightingClimate Change, Public Lands/Forests, Other

2021298Restarting Construction of the Harmful Border WallWildlife, Public Lands/Forests, Environmental Justice

2021279Kim Confirmation (DOJ-ENRD Assistant Attorney General)Other, Environmental Justice

2021246Voting Rights and Democracy ReformsJustice and Democracy

2021236Fox Confirmation (EPA Assistant Administrator)Water

2021231Jackson Confirmation (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals)Judiciary, Climate Change, Justice and Democracy

2021203Clarke Confirmation (DOJ-CRD Assistant Attorney General)Justice and Democracy, Other

2021178Investing in Water InfrastructureWater

2021175Repealing Assault on Methane Pollution SafeguardsClimate Change, Dirty Energy

2021150Mallory Confirmation (Council on Environmental Quality Chair)Other, Environmental Justice

2021125Becerra Confirmation (Health and Human Services Secretary)Other, Environmental Justice

2021123Tai Confirmation (United States Trade Representative)Other

2021119Haaland Confirmation (Interior Secretary)Other, Public Lands/Forests

2021116Regan Confirmation (EPA Administrator)Other, Climate Change, Water, Air, Environmental Justice

2021114Garland Confirmation (Attorney General)Other, Justice and Democracy

2021113Fudge Confirmation (Housing and Urban Development Secretary)Other, Environmental Justice

202186Striking Provisions to Help Farmers of ColorEnvironmental Justice, Agriculture

202170Raimondo Confirmation (Commerce Secretary)Other, Oceans

202166Granholm Confirmation (Energy Secretary)Other, Clean Energy

202159Impeachment for Incitement of InsurrectionJustice and Democracy

202143Bolstering the Dirty Water RuleClean Water

202132Supporting the Destructive Keystone XL PipelineDirty Energy, Environmental Justiice

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2021 28

Promoting Drilling for Fossil FuelsDirty Energy, Drilling

202111Buttigieg Confirmation (Transportation Secretary)Other, Transportation

20212Certifying Pennsylvania’s Electoral VotesJustice and Democracy

20211Certifying Arizona’s Electoral VotesJustice and Democracy

2020224Barrett Confirmation (Supreme Court)Judiciary

2020222Barrett Cloture Vote (Supreme Court)Judiciary

2020168Inadequate COVID Relief PackageOther

2020126Inadequate Policing ReformJudiciary, Other

2020125Wilson Confirmation (Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)Judiciary

2020123Walker Confirmation (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals)Judiciary

2020121Great American Outdoors ActLands/Forests

2020118Defeating Effort to Derail the Great American Outdoors ActLands/Forests

202072Danly Confirmation (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)Dirty Energy, Clean Energy, Climate Change

202060MacGregor Confirmation (Interior Deputy Secretary)Dirty Energy, Climate Change, Lands/Forests, Oceans, Drilling, Wildlife

202041Kindred Confirmation (U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska)Judiciary

202036Brasher Confirmation (Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)Judiciary

202014USMCA Trade DealClimate Change; Other

2019339Undermining the Land and Water Conservation FundLands/Forests

2019324Stopping Rollbacks of Carbon Pollution Limits for Power PlantsClimate Change

2019313Scalia Confirmation (Labor Secretary)Other

2019300Jorjani Confirmation (Interior Solicitor)Other, Lands/Forests

201977Bernhardt Confirmation (Interior Secretary)Climate Change, Drilling, Lands/Forests, Wildlife, Other

201968Wyrick Confirmation (District Court for Western District of Oklahoma)Other, Justice and Democracy

201944:{Rao Confirmation:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}: (D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals)Other, Justice and Democracy

201933Wheeler Confirmation (EPA Administrator)Climate Change, Clean Air, Clean Water

201929Miller Confirmation (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)Other, Justice and Democracy

201922Public Lands PackageLands/Forests

201920Undermining the Antiquities ActLands/Forests

201919Blocking Permanent Reauthorization of the Land & Water Conservation FundLands/Forests

2018259:{Farm Bill Conference Rep:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:ortClimate Change, Clean Water

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CNN's Manu Raju reported that two sources told him that Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) waited until the last minute to withdraw from his Senate race for a key reason.

Writing Thursday, Raju said that Daines was scared that a popular Democrat would announce they'd run for the open seat and win.

On Wednesday, Daines' announcement was made just eight minutes before the candidate filing deadline closed in Montana. It means there was only a tiny moment for well-known Democrats like former Sen. Jon Tester or former Govs. Brian Schweitzer and Steve Bullock to declare their intentions to run. With such a Democrat on the ballot in a year that is expected to be a blue wave, it would have put the Montana Senate seat in play.

The following day, Thursday, NBC News reported that Daines is among two possible candidates being considered to replace Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The President is reportedly furious with her after her testimony this week before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees

The White House has already contacted Daines’ office, the two sources told NBC News. The report didn't indicate if anyone else was contacted by the White House.

Independent candidate Seth Bodnar said in a statement that Daines “has so little respect for Montana Republicans that he withdrew at the last minute to coronate his handpicked successor instead of giving them a voice at the ballot box.”

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Bankers cheer as GOP senator dismisses calls for regulations after SVB collapse

Jake Johnson and Common Dreams March 22, 2023

Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana garnered applause from a room full of bankers on Tuesday after he dismissed calls for tougher regulations following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.

"There are a lot of talking heads out there who are saying that the solution is more regulation, and I strongly disagree," Daines said in remarks to the American Bankers Association's Washington Summit, an annual gathering of bank CEOs and other top executives.

The Montana Republican went on to defend a 2018 law that progressive lawmakers and experts have said is at least partly responsible for the recent bank failures. That measure, known as S.2155, weakened post-financial crisis regulations for banks with between $50 billion and $250 billion in assets, subjecting firms such as SVB—which lobbied for the changes—to less stringent oversight and paving the way for more risk-taking and industry consolidation.

Daines, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and a major recipient of securities industry donations, called the stricter liquidity requirements and other rules gutted by the 2018 law "overreaching regulations" and claimed that efforts to revive the safeguards are creating "more worry" in the banking sector.

"This was not the cause of this failure," Daines said of S.2155, which former President Donald Trump signed into law after it passed with bipartisan support.

Watch the senator's remarks, which begin at the 1:32:04 mark:

It's unsurprising that Daines' defense of S.2155 was received favorably by a gathering of the American Bankers Association, which was one of many industry groups that lobbied aggressively for the measure.

"The lobbyists were everywhere. You couldn't throw an elbow without running into one," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who vocally opposed S.2155, told reporters last week.

Warren and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) have introduced legislation that would repeal a critical section of the 2018 law.

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that in the hours before Congress approved the measure, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.)—one of the legislation's top Democratic supporters—"huddled with executives from Bank of America, Citigroup, Discover, and Wells Fargo, who were there on behalf of the American Bankers Association."

:{"The American Bankers Association, which helped lead the push, later paid $125,000 for an ad campaign thanking Tester for his role in the bill's passage," the Associated Press noted.

The banking group's PAC spent more than $2.6 million on campaign contributions during the 2018 election cycle, with more than 76% of the donations going to Republicans, according to OpenSecrets.}:

Daines, who won reelection in 2020, received $10,000 from the American Bankers Association PAC during that year's campaign.

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Throughout his career, Inhofe has received in excess of $2.2 million in campaign contributions from oil and gas companies. Daines and Barrasso have each received $1.2 million from the industry. 

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d doz 9/14

Congressman Steve Daines (R-MT) is yet another dirty energy supporter looking for an upgrade to the Senate. His campaign is being fueled by coal, oil, and gas interests who have no qualms about despoiling Montana’s natural beauty. He thinks “solar cycles” are causing warming.

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vet burn pit cruz fist bump 8-10 in huddle

**Senator Ted Cruz** (R-TX) was caught on camera on the floor of the Senate fist-bumping his fellow GOP senators after they successfully blocked legislation to help veterans who are suffering after being exposed to toxic burn pits.

"Hundreds of thousands of American veterans were exposed to toxic fumes from burn pits on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan," NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reported in January. "So far, though, the Department of Veterans Affairs still denies the vast majority of their claims for respiratory illness and rare cancers. The White House, the VA and Congress have all promised action, but it is not happening fast enough for sick veterans."

This week, it was about to finally happen. But Republicans – many of whom previously voted to pass the bill, blocked it.

READ MORE: ‘Came Closer Than Widely Realized’: Ted Cruz Worked ‘Directly With Trump’ to Try to Overturn the Election

"The bill, known as the Honoring Our PACT Act, passed both the House and the Senate with bipartisan support in June, but due to a snag in the bill's language, it needed to go back and pass the House and Senate again," CBS News reports. "On Wednesday evening, 25 Republican senators reversed their support from June and voted no on a procedural vote to advance the legislation."

"President Joe Biden is a strong supporter of the bill," CBS News notes, putting the number of veterans exposed at 3.5 million. "At the State of the Union in March, he called on Congress to take action on burn pits, which he believes may have been a factor in his son's Beau's terminal brain cancer."

"Veterans have come home with a number of illnesses, including terminal cancers, but have been forced to argue to the Department of Veterans Affairs their illnesses were related to burn pit exposure," CBS adds. "The legislation would have removed the burden of proof from veterans and their families by presuming a number of conditions could be related to exposure to toxic fumes from burn pits."

READ MORE: [‘Boldly Ignorant’ Ted Cruz Slammed by Retired NYPD Detective for His Suggestions to Protect Kids

A video that's quickly gone viral on social media captures Senator Cruz gleefully celebrating the GOP's defeat of the legislation that could help millions of veterans, and their families. In it he initiates a fist-bump with Montana Republican Senator Steve Daines.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/newsmax-host-squirms-kevin-cramer/

9/20

:{LCV Victory Fund:(style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:#ff9900;"):}: today announced that Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, David Richter (NJ-03), State Delegate Nick Freitas (VA-07), Yvette Herrell (NM-02), Former Rep. Claudia Tenney (NY-22), and Beth Van Duyne (TX-24) have been named to the organization’s signature 2020 :{Dirty Dozen:(style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px"):}: list of some of the worst anti-environmental candidates running for office this year....

These six candidates join :{previously announced Dirty Dozen:(style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:#ff9900;"):}: members Montana Senator Steve Daines, Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, Michigan Senate candidate John James, Arizona Senator Martha McSally, and North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis as well as :{President Donald Trump:(style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px"):}:, named the dirtiest of all time.

“In 2018 voters chose environmental champions across the country,” said Pete Maysmith, LCV Victory Fund Senior Vice President for Campaigns. “We’ve seen the results of those wins with the most pro-environmental House in over a decade. In 2020, corporate polluters are pushing back like never before because they know with environmental champions leading the White House, Senate, and House we can finally start to build the clean energy economy this country needs.”

More information on new 2020 Dirty Dozen:

Iowa Senate: Senator Joni Ernst

In Iowa, a state where families are directly impacted by climate change, Senator Joni Ernst has repeatedly denied the reality of human caused climate change, saying that “climate change may just be a natural occurrence” and even voting against acknowledging that human-caused climate change is real. Since she was first elected to the Senate, Ernst accepted more than $330,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry and has advocated for them in the U.S. Senate. Ernst led Senate Republicans’ efforts to block Obama’s Clean Water Rule that protected drinking water sources for over 117 million Americans. She later praised Trump’s weak replacement rule, which allows farmers to use pesticides and fertilizers that risk running into waterways, polluting our drinking water, and causing cancer and other diseases. Ernst has earned a lifetime LCV score of 3%.

NJ-03: David Richter

David Richter is running against first time incumbent LCV Action Fund-endorsed Rep. Andy Kim. Richter supports Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord as well as Trump’s tax reform plan that gave billions of dollars to big oil. He is the former CEO of Hill International, a construction company that has worked on dozens of  oil and gas projects throughout both the U.S. and the Middle East. His company worked on a petrochemical plant near a predominantly Black community in Louisiana that ended up emitting nearly 100 million tons of toxic pollution in 2018, making it the second largest air polluter in the nation, as well as half a dozen other oil and gas projects that resulted in pollution, fires, and harm. In his first two years in Congress, Rep. Kim has earned a 97% score from LCV. LCVVF is currently running a digital program to defeat David Richter.

VA-07: State Delegate Nick Freitas

Current State Delegate Nick Freitas is running against first-term incumbent Rep. Abigail Spanberger in VA-07. Freitas has repeatedly voted against taking action on the climate crisis and protecting our water from toxic pollution. During his time in the Virginia State Legislature, he voted against banning fracking and offshore drilling and against protecting drinking water from PFAS. He was the deciding vote blocking a bill to update the sixth-grade science curriculum to include the benefits of recycling. He supports Trump’s tax reform plan that gave billions of dollars in tax cuts to big oil companies, has taken nearly $15,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry, and said climate scientists are unqualified to make policy recommendations. Freitas has a 31% lifetime score from Virginia LCV. 

NM-02: Yvette Herrell

Herrell has a record of siding with special interests while advancing her own career. Herrell used her time in the New Mexico state legislature building connections to Washington special interests through the Koch-funded lobbying group ALEC, while letting taxpayers help foot the bill for her trips to its lavish conferences in Washington, D.C. As a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, Herrell has voted against environmental protections and proposed an extreme attack on New Mexico’s public lands that could result in public lands being sold off to private developers. She has a 14% lifetime score from Conservation Voters New Mexico. This is Herrell’s second run for Congress, her second time on the Dirty Dozen and a rematch against LCV Action Fund-endorsed candidate Xochitl Torres Small who won the then open seat.

NY-22: Former Representative Claudia Tenney

This is Tenney’s second time on LCVVF’s Dirty Dozen. Tenney is a climate denialist and is on the record calling climate change an “imaginary beast.” She has said that climate change is not “a significant threat to our planet” and has received more than $180,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry. While in the House from 2017-2019, she earned a lifetime LCV score of 6% — voting against protections for New York’s environment and public health, and putting corporate special interests ahead of her constituents. Tenney voted in line with President Trump 96% of the time, praising his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord and voting to eliminate protections like diabetes and asthma, while letting corporate polluters spew more toxins into our air. Tenney also voted to repeal the Clean Water Rule that protected drinking water sources for over 117 million Americans and let corporate polluters contaminate our water with toxic chemicals. 

TX-24: Beth Van Duyne

Former Mayor of Irving, TX and current Trump administration employee Beth Van Duyne is running for Congress in this open seat. Van Duyne promotes anti-environmental policies, suggesting that climate change is not human-caused, that eliminating fossil fuel is a “radical far-left” policy, and supporting Trump’s tax reform plan that gave billions of dollars to big oil companies. She supports opening more rare earth mineral mines in Texas and has claimed that the EPA is “crippling” cities with environmental regulations. In her first mayoral campaign, her largest contributor was an oil and gas executive, and she has received over $75,000 in campaign contributions this cycle from the oil and gas industry. Van Duyne is running against LCV Action Fund-endorsed candidate Candace Valenzuela. 

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Letter to the editor: BLM has director it deserves

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The mission of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is simple: "To sustain the health, diversity and productivity of public lands for the enjoyment of present and future generations."

For two years this mission was challenged by the appointment of Acting Director William Perry-Pendley. Mr. Perry-Pendley was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate and proudly advocated the sale of public lands to private entities.

The absence of response from U.S. Sen. Steve Daines was almost deafening.

Today, we stand at a crossroads to save the mission of the bureau. Over her career, Tracy Stone-Manning has clearly shown her ability to create a healthy balance between public land conservation and the desire of private entities to use the land's potential resources. I'm thrilled she was confirmed as director.

However, as Stone-Manning was working her way through the process, Sen. Daines had a lot to say in opposition to her confirmation.

This makes no sense at all if we wish to retain our Montana motto of "Last Best Place," rather than reminiscing on these lands in the past tense. I'm more than relieved that common sense prevailed and the BLM will have the director it deserves.

Pauline Tait,

Billings

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...(The satirical news site *The Onion* deftly handled this, calling out each of the 126 with an individualized message. To Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida, "You have been absolutely fearless when stopping the American people from participating in elections;" to Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee, "Never again will we allow U.S. citizens to recklessly turn in their ballots;" to Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, "Thank you for bravely standing up to the American voters;" and so on. Each was accompanied by an especially beguiling photo of a maggot.)

Many of those same members and more—some 140—are now lending their names to the smoke-and-mirrors effort in Congress to challenge the votes of the Electoral College, which already has given the election to Joe Biden. The votes of the electors officially are to be announced on Wednesday by Vice President Mike Pence in his capacity as President of the Senate.

In normal times, this would be a mere formality, but Trump and Republicans have decided to turn it into a clumsy attempt at a coup d'etat, ignoring the rule of law and numerous court rulings. They're putting on an act, trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election as a dumbshow of power, all out of fear of Tin Hat Trump's "base" of voters and to preserve a status quo that ignores the diversity of America, cossets the rich and fosters hate, poverty and inequality.

In the House, the leaders of this effort include the feckless Louie Gohmert of Texas, known as "America's craziest and dumbest congressman." Having just had an election lawsuit thrown out by a Federal appeals court on New Year's Day, he went on *Newsmax* suggesting that the alternative now is going to the streets and "being as violent as antifa and BLM."

He's joined in this mad pursuit—simultaneously dumbing down and radicalizing a significant portion of the party and American populace—by the usual suspects, led by Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama and including Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, Jody Hice of Georgia and Joe Wilson of South Carolina. New members of the House are piping up, too, including QAnon queen Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.

On the Senate side, opposition to finalizing the presidential result is being led by Josh Hawley of Missouri, a man of vaulting ambition who wants to be president so badly he's is willing to violate his sworn oath of office and destroy the Constitution and Bill of Rights to get there, using conspiracy theories and falsehoods to oil his way into the White House as early as 2024.

In a letter published Saturday, eleven other Republican senators and senators-elect demanded an "emergency 10-day audit" of results in "the disputed states,"—in other words, the states Trump is shocked—shocked!—that he lost to Joe Biden, states he assumed would be a cinch for him. They weren't.

Remember their names:

• Ted Cruz (Texas)
• Ron Johnson (Wisconsin)
• James Lankford (Oklahoma)
• Steve Daines (Montana)
• John Kennedy (Louisiana)
• Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee)
• Mike Braun (Indiana)
• Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming) (new senator)
• Roger Marshall (Kansas) (new senator)
• Bill Hagerty (Tennessee) (new senator)
• Tommy Tuberville (Alabama) (new senator)

Sadly, this Dirty Dozen (including Hawley), a so-called "Sedition Caucus" in the Senate, probably won't be deterred by news of that phone call Trump made to Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, trying to bully him into finding more votes to change the result in the state from Biden to Trump—a conversation much like the one with Ukraine President Zelensky that a year ago got Donald Trump impeached.

Trump's impeachment didn't lead to conviction by the Senate, thanks to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who would brook no new evidence or witnesses, turning the trial into a sham with a predetermined outcome. But McConnell now is opposed to his colleagues' efforts to subvert the Electoral College. Why? Because McConnell is all about the raw power he alone holds in the Senate. He cares for that and little else except, of course, tax cuts for the superrich, holding rules and regulations at bay and getting as many conservative Federal judges approved by the Senate as quickly as he can.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/montana-sen-steve-daines-backed-policies-that-benefited-him-and-gop-pal-rep-greg-gianforte/

igor salon 

senSteve Daines of Montana, one of the richest members of the U.S. Senate, has repeatedly backed policies that benefited both him and his longtime business partner Rep. Greg Gianforte, who is Montana's lone congressman and the richest member of the House of Representatives. The two Republicans are both involved in tight political campaigns this year: Daines is running for re-election against Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat and former presidential candidate, in a race that could well decide control of the Senate. Gianforte is running for governor against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney.

Daines and Gianforte have done business together for decades and co-own a real estate company that appears to have benefited from the 2017 Republican tax bill, which they both supported. Daines made his vote for the bill contingent on increasing a tax deduction for "pass-through" entities, which allow business income to be treated as personal income, a deduction that appears to have saved him thousands in taxes. Daines has also sponsored several more obscure bills that benefited Gianforte, who has an estimated net worth of $189 million.

Daines and Gianforte own 75% of Genesis Partners, a commercial real estate firm, with Daines holding about 25%, according to the Helena Independent Record. Daines and Gianforte were listed as "active" managers on the company's 2019 annual financial report filed with the Montana Secretary of State's office. Daines valued his assets in Genesis between $4 million and $17 million and reported between $430,006 and $4.1 million in rent or royalties and capital gains income from the firm in 2019, according to his most recent personal financial disclosure.

Both Daines and Gianforte voted to back the 2017 Republican tax bill, which was a**"boon to commercial real estate owners.**" The bill doubled the depreciation deductions for commercial real estate investors for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and fire protection systems. After the tax law went into effect in 2018, Genesis Partners received a building permit valued at $300,000 that included work on the HVAC and fire suppression systems at its property at 110 Enterprise Boulevard in Bozeman, Montana, its first such permit since 2004. The company later sold the property in December 2019, according to Daines' financial disclosure, after its value jumped from $1.75 million in 2018 to $2.08 million in 2019, according to the Montana Department of Revenue.

Genesis also received a building permit valued at $80,000 that included work on the fire sprinkler at a nearby property at 136 Enterprise Boulevard that same year, its first such permit since 2009. The value of the property increased from $4.94 million in 2018 to $6.44 million in 2019, according to the Montana Department of Revenue, while the Republican tax law allowed for additional savings on the company's tax bill.

Daines had threatened to oppose the tax bill because it did not "cut taxes deeply enough" for pass-through entities, Politico reported ahead of the vote. The GOP secured Daines' vote by expanding the increasing the deduction for pass-through entity owners from 17% to 20%. The deduction would have shaved about $37,946 from Daines' taxable income in 2017, according to an analysis by the Billings Gazette.

Daines has also supported legislation that benefited Gianforte, who has been his close friend since the late 1990s. Daines worked at the Bozeman tech firm RightNow Technologies before Gianforte sold the company to Oracle for $1.8 billion, as Salon's Roger Sollenberger has previously reported. Both lawmakers have backed policies that Oracle lobbied for since coming to Congress. Daines left the firm before the sale but retained his stock, which resulted in a big windfall. He is now one of the richest members of Congress, with an estimated net worth of $6.9 million.

Daines' and Gianforte's campaigns did not respond to questions from Salon.

In 2017, Daines sponsored a bill that could benefit the Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), the credit monitoring agency. Gianforte is a member of FICO's board of directors and owns nearly $7 million in the company's stock.

The Support for Rapid Innovation Act was intended to encourage the Department of Homeland Security to support private sector cybersecurity research. Daines did not refer to FICO by name but touted the company's technology during a hearing on the bill and called for similar technology to be adopted by DHS for cybersecurity purposes.

That same year, Daines co-sponsored the Modernizing Government Technology Act, which was passed as an amendment to a defense funding bill. The bill established "IT working capital funds at 24 federal government agencies and allow[ed] them to use savings obtained through streamlining IT systems, replacing legacy products and transitioning to cloud computing for up to three years for further modernization efforts."

That bill created a new pool of federal money to dole out to big tech firms, and was a big boost to multiple companies in which Gianforte owns stock. Red Hat and ServiceNow — Gianforte's biggest tech holdings — along with Cisco and IBM all lobbied for the bill.

Red Hat also lobbied for "procurement reform" in 2017 and later lobbied on issues related to the implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Act (FITARA). In 2017, Daines sponsored Senate version of the FITARA Enhancement Act, which expanded the original law.

Gianforte reported that his stock in Red Hat was worth about $1.8 million in 2016. A year after Daines' bills passed, that value increased to $3.64 million. His stock in ServiceNow was worth $782,280 in 2016 but increased to $1.6 million by 2018.

Gianforte also reported owning $2.4 million in stock in financial institutions in 2018. Daines sponsored numerous bills aimed at deregulating the financial sector. He sponsored the CLEAR Relief Act of 2017, "which provides a [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau] qualified mortgage safe harbor for small financial institutions with $10 billion or less." Numerous banking groups lobbied for the bill, portions of which were later passed as part of a larger legislative package.

Daines also sponsored the TAILOR ACT of 2017, "which requires financial regulators to tailor their rules to consider the size, risk profile, complexity, and business model of financial institutions impacted." That bill was approved by the Republican-led House but stalled in the Senate.

Daines was also behind the Home Mortgage Disclosure Adjustment Act of 2017, "which exempts small community banks and credit unions that issue less than 500 mortgages annually from onerous demographic reporting requirements." Portions of that bill were later rolled into a separate legislative package.

Daines also pushed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Accountability Act of 2017, which aimed to "address regulations passed under Dodd-Frank and make the bureau accountable to the American people by bringing it under the Congressional appropriations process." The bill never came to a vote.

Daines was also a key player in the Trump administration's rollback of the Dodd-Frank regulations passed after the Great Recession, and was singled out by President Donald Trump at the bill's signing ceremony even though he was not a co-sponsor of the bill or a member of the Senate Banking Committee.

The two lawmakers have also enjoyed an unusually close relationship in Washington. Gianforte and his wife Susan were two of Daines' earliest financial backers when the latter announced his first run for Congress in 2010. They also made maximum donations to Daines' campaign when he ran for U.S. Senate in 2014 and again the following year after he was elected. Gianforte even hosted a fundraiser for Daines that was headlined by former House Speaker John Boehner, the National Journal reported, noting that Gianforte could "benefit from Washington connections through his friendship with Sen. Steve Daines."

Daines, likewise, endorsed Gianforte in his failed 2016 gubernatorial bid and campaigned for him in 2017 when Gianforte won his congressional seat in a special election, despite body slamming a reporter during the campaign.

The two lawmakers also launched a joint Gianforte Daines Victory Committee in 2018.

Since Gianforte's election to the House, Daines has flown on Gianforte's private plane at least nine times, according to his 2017 and 2018 personal financial disclosures. Daines reported that he reimbursed Gianforte for all the flights, often paying more than $2,000 for air travel that would have cost a fraction of that price on commercial airlines.

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https://theintercept.com/2020/10/03/steve-daines-montana-climate-change/

control of senate?!

https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/montana-gop-senator-got-influx-of-cash-after-vote-to-extend-investor-visa-program-rampant-with-fraud/

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the republicans have attacked Montana Gov. Steve Bullock for encouraging Chinese investment in his state even though Sen. Steve Daines, a GOP incumbent, voted to reauthorize a visa program that had been criticized for "rampant" fraud.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee recently released an ad alleging that Bullock, who is challenging Daines in a neck-and-neck race that could decide control of the Senate, has a "dangerous relationship" with China because he urged investment in Montana under the EB-5 visa program, which provides visas to immigrants who invest at least $500,000 in the United States.[vid?]

video in the ad was first reported by National Review, which noted that Bullock has called for reforms to the program. The report also noted that the top beneficiary of the fraud-plagued program in Montana has been the Yellowstone Club, a resort in Big Sky, Montana, whose owner has donated to Bullock and where the governor has hosted fundraisers.

The article added that the top executive at CrossHarbor Capital Partners, which owns the club, also donated to Daines, who "has not co-sponsored legislation" that would implement reforms to the program. Investor Brian Su, who advocates for EB-5 visas, donated tens of thousands to Daines and other Republicans after Daines voted to extend the program without any reforms to address potential fraud.

Daines reportedly met with Su, a major Republican donor, at the Yellowstone Club at the invitation of CrossHarbor Capital Partners before voting for the extension. He received an influx of donations from the company's executives two days after the vote.

Daines, who has extensive ties to China, and then-Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., who later served as President Trump's Interior secretary, met with Su at the Yellowstone Club in 2016 to court Chinese investment in Montana.They promised to provide investors with maximum support and assistance, according to a translation of an article published in the Chinese media outlet Chuansongme.

Su is the founder of the Artisan Business Group, which helps Chinese investors establish relationships in the U.S., and is a "leading authority on EB-5 marketing and promotion." Su visited the Yellowstone Club at the invitation of CrossHarbor Capital Partners, according to Chuansongme.

Su donated $3,000 to Daines' Big Sky Committee around the time of the meeting, the only individual contribution on the committee's September 2016 Federal Election Commission report. Su has donated $6,500 to Daines' campaign, leadership PAC and super PAC since 2016. He has also donated $10,000 to the Montana Republican Party and more than $59,000 to the NRSC and Republican candidates and political committee

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montana Republicans Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Greg Gianforte share a tight financial and legislative history with each other and with the tech giant Oracle that goes back years. That relationship has netted each of them several million dollars and made Gianforte one of the wealthiest members of Congress.

Both have also used their offices to support legislation and other initiatives for which Oracle spent significant time and money lobbying, and from which the company stood to gain financially — including through defense contracts.

Additionally, both are up for election this year: Daines is running for re-election to the Senate, in a tight race with current Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, while Gianforte is trying to move from the House — where he serves as the state’s lone representative — to the governor’s mansion.

Gianforte made his fortune from RightNow Technologies, a Bozeman-based tech company he co-founded with his wife in 1997, where Daines served as an executive for 12 years. In 2011, Gianforte sold the company to Oracle for $1.5 billion, at the time holding between 20% and 25% of the company’s stock, which was valued at between $300 million and $400 million, according to statements he made to the Billings Gazette.

that sale sent 100 jobs to Texas, according to a report in the Missoulan, but Gianforte stayed, working in a consulting capacity until March 2013, per his LinkedIn page.

The sale went a long way toward making Gianforte the wealthiest member of Congress, a title he held until last year when he was displaced by appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., whose husband is CEO of the New York Stock Exchange

The Gianforte Family Trust holds more than $190 million in assets, as of its 2018 tax filing, and supports a number of ultra-conservative organizations and efforts, including helping to build a creationist museum in Glendive, Montana, that depicts humans coexisting with dinosaurs.

Daines reported that between 2011 and 2012, when he stepped away from the company to run for Senate, RightNow and Oracle paid him a combined $550,882 in salary. He also reported earning between $2 million and $10 million over those two years, according to disclosures.

Since 1998, Daines and Gianforte, through their company Genesis Partners, have shared a stake in a Bozeman office complex called Genesis Business Park, which rented space to RightNow and subsequently Oracle. The complex currently hosts an Oracle campus, which Gianforte told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle in 2015 had a 10-year lease, which is apparently set to expire next March.

Between 2015 dna 2018, Daines pulled in between $485,000 and $5.1 million per year in rent from the office park, and 2012 through 2014 earned between $100,001 and $1 million, according to his federal disclosure forms.

Gianforte reported earning between $50,000 and $100,000 from rent and capital gains through Genesis Partners, per his disclosures.

In fact, Daines officially filed his candidacy for Senate from the Oracle offices in Bozeman, which he had leased to the company. From the Missoula Independent:

Critics have since speculated that [Daines’] years at the company and the money netted by executives through the Oracle purchase were the springboard from which Daines launched his political career. In fact, according to a February 2014 article in the Billings Gazette, Daines officially filed his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from his iPhone while at the Bozeman offices of Oracle.

While in congress, Daines and Gianforte have pushed legislation that would benefit Oracle, including bills lobbied on by Oracle, federal reports show.

Daines introduced an amendment to a 2017 spending bill (SB 2943) that included spending to “ensure higher quality cybersecurity” for Department of Energy and Pentagon nuclear command and communication systems. Oracle had previously been awarded DOE contracts to do software work for the National Nuclear Security Administration, as well as DOD contracts for electronics and communications equipment.

Oracle reported that it lobbied on that bill for those specific issues, expending nearly $2 million on lobbying that quarter alone, government disclosures show.

The Montana legislative duo also supported billions of dollars in federal government procurement on which Oracle had lobbied.

Daines also voted to allocate billions of dollars for procurement as part of the fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs), Gianforte effectively voted in favor of the 2017 and 2020 NDAAs, both of which Oracle lobbied on.

Specifically, Oracle lobbied on issues related to IT, cloud and cybersecurity procurement policies, spending nearly $2 million lobbying on both, according to disclosures.

Furthermore, Daines used committee markups in 2015 and 2016 to increase funding for cybersecurity measures by nearly $2 billion, while Oracle touted its cybersecurity work with the federal government — specifically the Pentagon.

Daines also worked to boost cybersecurity innovation in the private sector, introducing legislation to get cybersecurity interests a seat at the table of a Workforce Advisory Board.

Oracle, whose complete cloud services division took in about $27.4 billion per year, lobbied on “cloud computing issues” throughout Daines’ time in Congress.

Daines similarly supported millions of dollars in funding for artificial intelligence (AI) programs, which Oracle stood to benefit from substantially, as the company offered an array of products incorporating AI and machine learning.

Daines has routinely advocated for private sector advantages on those issues, while Oracle promoted its government collaborations and spent millions lobbying for spending increases, including nearly $2 million for AI.

Daines and Gianforte both supported rolling back net neutrality,which Oracle publicly supported — and though many tech companies share the same interests, Daines and Gianforte used their offices to oppose policies supported by Oracle competitors, most specifically Google.

One such measure was the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, which held website operators liable for third-party content that promotes sex trafficking. According to the Verge, Oracle publicly supported that bill in an effort to harm their competitors, specifically Google:

Why Oracle would come out so publicly in favor of the bill is less obvious, since the law lacks even a tenuous connection to their business model. However the company’s animosity towards Google is well-documented, from its $9 billion lawsuit over Android, to Oracle’s funding of the Google Transparency Project, which put out a report earlier this year claiming that Google had bought academic influence through grants. In a bizarre way, Google has become the favorite target of those who support SESTA.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported in 2015 that Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock had met with Oracle competitors Google and Facebook ahead of his 2016 re-election bid, apparently in an effort to lure more tech competitors to Montana’s Northern Rocky tech apparatus. Bullock defeated Gianforte in that election, and is now running against Daines in one of the nation’s most closely-watched Senate races.

Daines once sent a letter to Google voicing concerns about their personal health information protection mechanisms, requesting the company provide information on the subject. Coincidentally, Oracle also criticized its chief rival’s data collection, and played a key role in launching an Australian government probe into Google over its collection practices.

In 2017, Daines called on Oracle CEO Safra Catz to join a tech jobs summit that he hosted.

Gianforte co-sponsored and voted in favor of an Oracle-backed immigration bill, the Fairness For High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019, on which Oracle lobbied, according to federal disclosures.

Gianforte also supported intelligence authorization legislation that Oracle lobbied on, voting in favor of an intelligence authorization act in 2018, 2019 and 2020, per Senate records.

In addition to the millions of dollars that Daines and Gianforte made from their business relationships with Oracle, including ongoing rent, the company has contributed financially to the two lawmakers’ election campaigns.

Daines for his part has taken over $56,000 in campaign contributions from Oracle over his career,making the company one of his top 10 contributors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Oracle employees have contributed $10,700 to Gianforte over the course of his two congressional bids.

Daines currently appears to hold a lead over Bullock in this year’s Senate race, and President Trump is expected to easily carry Montana. But the state has a history of being politically unpredictable, and Democratic Sen. Jon Tester successfully held his seat in 2018.

Gianforte faces a tougher challenge against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney, in a race currently rated as a “toss-up” in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.

Gianforte first won his House seat in a tight 2017 special election, after former Rep. Ryan Zinke joined Trump’s cabinet for his spectacularly scandal-studded stint as secretary of the Interior. On the eve of Gianforte’s election he made worldwide headlines for body-slamming Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, and was convicted of assault in Montana state court the next month (after winning the election). The judge handed down a fine and sentenced the representative-elect to community service and anger management therapy.

As a result of the terms of the settlement, Gianforte gave the Committee to Protect Journalists $50,000, about 1/4,000 of his total estimated net worth.

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Trade group airs ads to boost five senators facing reelection

A trade group representing chemical companies will spend more than $150,000 on advertising during July in support of four Republican senators and one Democrat, all of whom face reelection in 2020. 

The American Chemistry Council, which represents nearly 200 companies including DuPont, Chevron Phillips and ExxonMobil, is running TV and radio ads in Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Dakota between July 8 and 21, according to Federal Communications Commission records accessed via OpenSecrets’ political ad database. Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) all face reelection next year.

The ads that mention Cassidy, Daines and Rounds praise the three senators for tax cuts. Sullivan receives recognition for ocean cleanup, while Coons is applauded for his sustainability efforts. All of the ads end by encouraging viewers to call their senators and thank them.

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Senators Release Draft of Wildfire Prevention Legislation

October 23, 2017

The Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2017 will simplify forest management to help prevent & mitigate wildfires and protect wildlife.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), joined with Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), John Thune (R-SD), and Steve Daines (R-MT) to release a staff draft of the Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2017.

The draft legislation will enhance forest management to more effectively mitigate severity of catastrophic wildfires. The bill will also provide increased protections for wildlife habitat threatened by wildfires.

“In Wyoming, and across the West, catastrophic fires have destroyed people’s homes, devastated wildlife, and claimed lives, ” said Barrasso. “State and local forest managers need the flexibility to remove trees and dead wood that fuel these terrible fires. Our bill will provide commonsense tools and cut unnecessary red tape. We must act quickly to address the risk these fires pose to both people and wildlife.”

"I’m thrilled to see continued progress with this important legislation. Wildfire continues to decimate Western communities, ruining sources of drinking water, destroying property, and even claiming lives,” Hatch said. “I believe this proposal will strengthen the Forest Service’s ability to engage in wildfire prevention, which carries the added benefit of improving wildlife habitat. It is imperative that we to return to a more balanced approach to forest management, not just fire management. I am confident that this bill will help foster safer, healthier forests in Utah and across the West for years to come.”

“After nearly a quarter century of very-limited-to-hands-off forest management, federal forest fire suppression costs have continued to grow,” said Thune. “We must take immediate steps to improve the health of our nation’s forestland and be more aggressive and proactive in forest management. I believe this legislation offers several common-sense solutions that would help solve our problem of declining forest health by allowing land management professionals to use more 21st Century land management techniques. Efficient and effective land management makes forests more resilient and better able to withstand fire, pests, and diseases. This bill, which includes provisions I’ve previously introduced that would greatly expand categorical exclusions and measures to reduce litigation risk, is an important step in the right direction.”

“We have had one of the most devastating fire seasons this year across the West and in Montana,” said Daines. “We need forest management reform now to reduce the severity and intensity of wildfires and create more good-paying jobs.”

Specifically, the Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2017 will:

• Statutorily reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's Cottonwood decisions by codifying the position taken by the Obama administration that federal agencies are not required to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at a programmatic level when new critical habitat is designated or a new species is listed;

• Direct the Department of Interior (DOI) to create a categorical exclusion (CE) for certain sage-grouse and mule deer habitat vegetation projects that address areas affected by the encroachment of invasive pinyon and juniper trees;

• Direct the Department of Agriculture to create a CE for immediate action in critical response situations due to disease and insect infestations, threats to watersheds, and other high-risk areas;

• Call for streamlined environmental review for ecosystem restoration projects by requiring the U.S. Forest Service to consider only two alternatives during the planning process: an "action" alternative, and a "no action" alternative;

• Establish or modify CEs for wildlife habitat improvement, forest thinning, and insect and disease infestation; and

• Establish a five-year pilot arbitration process to allow alternative dispute resolution for forest activities that will result in binding decisions not subject to judicial review.

To view full text of the draft legislation, click here.

Background Information:

On September 27, 2017, the EPW committee held a hearing on “Forest Management to Mitigate Wildfires: Legislative Solutions.” The hearing examined three pieces of legislation: S. 605, the Litigation Relief for Forest Management Projects Act; S.1417, the Sage-Grouse and Mule Deer Habitat Conservation and Restoration Act of 201; and S.1731, the Forest Management Improvement Act of 2017.

On October 25, 2017, the EPW Committee is scheduled to hold a legislative hearing on the Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2017.

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Daines hiding in foxhole over climate change

JULY 05, 2013 8:00 AM  •  GUEST COLUMN BY ANDREW PERSON

This piece is about one issue, and how two leaders have responded to it. The scientific consensus, with 97 percent of climate scientists in agreement, is that our planet is heating up to dangerous levels because of the greenhouse gases we’re emitting into the atmosphere.

The two leaders are: Steve Daines, Montana’s lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and former Army Capt. Mike Breen, who is now serving as the spokesman of Operation Free, a nationwide coalition of veterans and national security experts who recognize that climate change is a major threat, and support fast, bold action.

Breen is a friend of mine; we served together in the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and deployed to Afghanistan together in 2005. Last week, Breen had this to say about climate change:

“Our military leaders agree: Climate change is a threat to our national security and if left unchecked, will increase instability and conflict in the most volatile regions of the world. In nearly every crisis precipitated by climate change, the military will be called upon to respond with disaster relief and recovery assistance, or to maintain vital supply lines that are the backbone of our economy. This places a direct burden on our military.”

Our lone congressman, by contrast, is AWOL on climate change. He’s hiding in his foxhole. He did sign the No Climate Tax Pledge, and after the president’s call for action on Tuesday, he “boldly” took to the House floor to criticize the president for “waging war on Montana energy.” But Daines hasn’t quite mustered the courage to either propose a plan to deal with climate change or explain why he thinks 97 percent of climate scientists have it wrong. He seems to like hanging back while others take fire.

Don’t get me wrong, plenty of leaders I respect disagree with the president’s approach to climate change. In Montana, many good men and women agree to disagree on big issues. But in my opinion, it’s just not acceptable for a leader to sit back and criticize without taking a position and offering a solution. That’s especially true when the stakes are so high. If Daines doesn’t think scientists have it right about climate change, I challenge him to make that argument to Montanans.

If he thinks they’re right and that the increasing carbon emissions around the world will mean the next generation will grow up in a very different world than we grew up in, then let’s hear his proposal for addressing the problem.

Afghanistan was a tough war for every leader. We all faced times that we felt stuck between a rock and a hard place. All options were tough ones. But sometimes real leaders face difficult decisions and real leaders don’t duck and cover – they step up and lead. When it comes to climate change we need bold leaders. We’re facing difficult decisions, but some options are a lot worse than others. I’m proud of the work Breen’s doing to make America stronger while taking on one of the toughest issues of our generation. I’m sure the time Breen spent leading troops in combat has helped him show such strong leadership on climate change.

Daines could and should learn a lot from my friend Breen. When it comes to climate change, I hope all Montanans will join me in calling on Congressman Daines to lead, follow or get out of the way. We can’t afford to have our only Congressman AWOL on fighting for the world our kids will grow up in.

Andrew Person is an Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran from Helena and a fellow with the Truman National Security Project. He served as national security policy adviser to U.S. Sen. Max Baucus from 2007 to 2012. Person is now a law student at the University of Montana in Missoula.

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AUGUST 19, 2013 4:04 PM  •  BY MIKE DENNISON GAZETTE STATE BUREAU

BOZEMAN – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a Montana audience Monday that American courts too often decide what rights we “ought to have,” when that decision instead should lie with the people, through their elected officials.

Scalia, speaking to more than 300 people at a Bozeman luncheon sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, said this “inventing” of rights goes directly against his crusade to uphold the U.S. Constitution’s “original meaning” – a cause he said is losing ground.

“We’re now in an age when the high court’s opinions speak of an evolving Constitution,” he said. “It means what it ought to mean. And who decides what it ought to mean?

“Nine lawyers. Actually five lawyers. What, are you crazy? Who would ever set up a system like that?”

Scalia, considered an intellectual leader of the Supreme Court’s conservative wing, said the court’s justices are no better suited to decide what rights ought to exist than is “Joe Sixpack.”

“These aren’t questions for lawyers,” he said. “These are the kind of questions that society debates and decides.”

Scalia, 77, has been on the Supreme Court since 1986, appointed by then-President Ronald Reagan.

The Federalist Society, a lawyers’ group that emphasizes many of the conservative principles espoused by Scalia, arranged Scalia’s visit here to help like-minded lawyers establish a Montana chapter of the group.

Organizers sold 320 tickets at $30 apiece for the luncheon, selling out the event a couple of weeks after it was advertised in July, said one of its organizers, state Senate Majority Leader Art Wittich, R-Bozeman.

A dozen Republican Montana officeholders attended the event, including Attorney General Tim Fox, who introduced Scalia, and U.S. Rep. Steve Daines.

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Procter & Gamble$32,950$27,950$5,000Yellowstone Bank$32,400$32,400$0Rightnow Technologies$31,825$31,825$0Langlas & Assoc$27,100$27,100$0Semitool Inc$21,900$21,900$0Boeing Co$20,000$5,000$15,000Clair Daines$20,000$20,000$0Fh Petroleum$15,300$15,300$0Every Republican is Crucial PAC$15,000$0$15,000National Cattlemen's Beef Assn$15,000$0$15,000PPL Corp$15,000$0$15,000Barnard Construction$14,800$14,800$0Home Depot$14,500$0$14,500Retamco Oil & Gas$12,800$12,800$0Koch Industries$12,000$0$12,000American Bankers Assn$11,000$0$11,000Arch Coal$11,000$0$11,000Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp$11,000$0$11,000National Auto Dealers Assn$11,000$0$11,000National Mining Assn$10,500$0$10,500

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Steven Daly "Steve" Daines (born August 20, 1962) is an American businessman and politician who has been the United States Representative for Montana's At-large congressional district since 2013.

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• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Business career
• 3 2008 gubernatorial election
• 4 U.S. House of Representatives
  • 4.1 2012 election
• 5 U.S. House of Representatives
  • 5.1 Committee assignments
  • 5.2 Caucus Memberships
• 6 Key Issues & Positions
  • 6.1 Balanced Budget & No Budget, No Pay
  • 6.2 Bipartisan Work
  • 6.3 Second Amendment Issues
  • 6.4 Energy & Natural Resource Development
• 7 Possible Senate run
• 8 Personal life
• 9 References
• 10 External links

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Daines is a fifth-generation Montanan and was raised in Bozeman, MT where he attended school from kindergarten through college.^[2] His great-great-grandmother Karine Dyrud immigrated from Norway toMinnesota in 1869, and later moved to Montana. His parents, who both grew up in Billings, Montana, returned to the state when he was one year old. His father and mother started their own home-construction business.

Daines graduated from Bozeman High School and was elected President of his class. He graduated with a B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University. In his senior year, he became one of the youngest delegates at the 1984 Republican National Convention. “I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.”^[3]

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Daines spent 13 years with Procter & Gamble. After seven years managing operations in the United States, he moved his family to Hong Kong and Chinafor six years to expand Procter & Gamble's Asian business. In 1997, Daines left Procter & Gamble to join the family construction business in Bozeman. Three years later, Daines was asked by Greg Gianforte, founder of RightNow Technologies, to be his Vice President of customer service. Daines became Vice President of North America Sales and Vice President of the Asia-Pacific division. During his tenure, the cloud-based software company became a publicly traded company and is Bozeman’s largest commercial employer. He and his wife founded Giveitback.com, a nonprofit organization that pushed for tax cuts after Montana had a $1 billion budget surplus.^[4]

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Main article: Montana gubernatorial election, 2008

Daines campaigned for Lieutenant Governor of Montana in 2008, running on the ticket with Roy Brown, the Republican nominee for Governor. They challenged incumbent Governor Brian Schweitzer and LG John Bohlinger. Brown/Daines lost the election 65%-33%. They won just 7 of the state's 56 counties.^[5][6][7]

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Main article: United States House of Representatives election in Montana, 2012

See also: United States Senate election in Montana, 2012

On November 13, 2010, Daines announced he would run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Jon Tester. This came after a complaint had been filed against Daines by David Benson, Executive Director of the Montana Democratic Party, that he had been illegally campaigning for several months before his announcement.^[8] This complaint was later dismissed.^[9] When U.S. Representative Denny Rehberg announced his intention to challenge Tester, Daines dropped out of the Senate race and announced his candidacy for the open seat vacated by Rehberg.^[10]

Daines won the 3-candidate Republican primary with 71% of the vote.^[11][12] In the general election, he defeated Democratic State Senator Kim Gillan, 53%-43%. He won 48 of the state's 56 counties.^[13][14]

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• Committee on Homeland Security

• • Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies

• • Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management

• Committee on Natural Resources

• • Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources

• • Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs

• • Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation

• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

• • Subcommittee on Aviation

• • Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

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• Congressional Western Caucus

• Congressional Rural Caucus

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• NW Energy Caucus

• Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus

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Daines introduced his first bill, the “Balanced Budget Accountability Act,” in February 2013. Daines’ bill would require Congress to pass a budget that would balance in 10 years or have their pay terminated.^[15] Daines also voted in support of No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (Public Law 113-3) which required both chambers of Congress to pass a budget by April 15, 2013 or the salaries of Members of that chamber would be put in an escrow account.

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Daines has gained a reputation for working across party lines, notably with Montana’s two Democrat Senators.^[16] In March, Daines announced his intentions to introduce a companion bill to the North Fork Watershed Protection Act, legislation originally sponsored by Montana Democrat Senator Max Baucus which has twice stalled in previous legislative sessions.^[17] In February, Daines voted in support of the Violence Against Women Act, which passed the House with 199 House Democrat and 87 House Republican votes.^[18]

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Daines has been vocal in his support for Second Amendment rights. Daines has called the Senate legislation to expand background checks the “the wrong approach”^[19] and has been a vocal opponent of the bill, which failed to pass the Senate in April.^[20] Daines has also pledged to “block” any legislation that poses a threat to Second Amendment rights.^[21] In an April tour of a Billings, Mont. sporting goods shop and shooting range, Daines adopted the nickname “Dead-Eye Daines” after reaffirming his opposition to gun control measures and demonstrating his marksmanship skills.^[22]

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Daines has criticized President Barack Obama for the Obama administration’s positions on natural resource development, calling the President’s June 2013 climate change proposal a “job killer” and a “war on American energy.” ^[23] [24] Daines co-sponsored the “Northern Route Approval Act” which would allow for congressional approval of the Keystone pipeline^[25] Daines has expressed strong support of Montana’s coal industry^[26] and oil production in eastern Montana and the Bakken formation.^[27]

Daines has also called for the need for litigation reforms to clear the way for more active forest management and the revitalization of Montana’s timber industry.^[28][29] In April, Daines signed on to the “Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act,” legislation to address the expiration of the Secure Rural Schools program by renewing the federal government’s commitment to manage forest resources.^[30]

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Daines is reportedly considering a 2014 U.S. Senate campaign and raised $415,000 in the second quarter of 2013.^[31] A National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser on July 17 has also fueled speculation that Daines will seek the Republican nomination as Democratic incumbent Max Baucus is set to retire at the end of his term.^[32]

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Daines has been married to his wife, Cindy, for 25 years.  They live in Bozeman and are the parents to four children: David, Annie, Michael and Caroline.  Steve and his family are actively involved in their church and community volunteer organizations and enjoy backpacking, hunting, skiing and fishing. They are members of the Springhill Presbyterian Church in Bozeman. ^[33]

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1. ^ Steve Daines. Marquis Who's Who.
2. ^ http://daines.house.gov/about/full-biography
3. ^ http://www.stevedaines.com/about-steve/
4. ^ http://nationaljournal.com/congress-legacy/montana-at-large-house-district-20121105
5. ^ http://sos.mt.gov/Elections/archives/2000s/2008/results/2008_State_General.pdf
6. ^ Johnson, Charles S. (6 November 2008). "Schweitzer looks ahead to goals of second term". Independent Record. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
7. ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=247268
8. ^ http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_ac93271a-8355-5e9c-9db3-6cf49b667984.html
9. ^ http://www.fec.gov/press/press2011/20111007digest.shtml
10. ^ http://www.kxlf.com/news/bozeman-s-steve-daines-comments-on-switching-from-senate-to-house-race/
11. ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=722589
12. ^ http://sos.mt.gov/Elections/2012/Primary/2012_PRIMARY_STATEWIDE_CANVASS.PDF
13. ^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=705021
14. ^ http://sos.mt.gov/elections/2012/2012_General_Canvass.pdf
15. ^ http://www.ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/article_d77c7636-d00e-5265-baa6-48a400e4867b.html
16. ^ http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/editorial/daines-brings-common-sense-to-congress/article_5293778a-6c81-11e2-b971-001a4bcf887a.html
17. ^ http://missoulian.com/news/local/daines-to-introduce-legislation-protecting-north-fork-flathead/article_05196d26-989a-11e2-b5f0-001a4bcf887a.html
18. ^ http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll055.xml
19. ^ http://daines.house.gov/press-releases/daines-senate-gun-control-proposals-threaten-montanans-second-amendment-rights/
20. ^ http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/politics/senate-guns-vote
21. ^ http://daines.house.gov/press-releases/daines-house-must-stand-firm-against-threats-to-second-amendment/
22. ^ http://www.ktvq.com/news/deadeye-daines-dawns-red-vest-hits-the-range/
23. ^ http://daines.house.gov/press-releases/daines-obamas-war-on-energy-hurts-montana-jobs/
24. ^ http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/daines-rips-obama-climate-change-proposal/article_68b2bcb6-12c7-587f-8d48-145b549814a5.html
25. ^ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:H.R.3:@@@P
26. ^ http://daines.house.gov/in-the-news/associated-press-us-rep-daines-signals-support-for-coal-mine-logging/
27. ^ http://www.sidneyherald.com/news/daines-tours-oil-related-businesses/article_69ca6a4e-9ed1-11e2-b820-001a4bcf887a.html
28. ^ http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_bb89c1b4-ea9d-11e2-8bc6-001a4bcf887a.html
29. ^ http://www.kbzk.com/news/daines-visits-livingston-lumber-mill-to-address-lumber-shortage/
30. ^ http://daines.house.gov/press-releases/daines-cosponsors-legislation-to-restore-active-forest-management-help-schools-counties/
31. ^ Burns, Alexander. "Mont. Rep. Steve Daines bumps up fundraising". Politico. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
32. ^ Joseph, Cameron. "NRSC fundraiser fuels speculation of Senate bid for Daines in Montana". The Hill. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
33. ^ http://daines.house.gov/about/full-biography

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• Congressman Steve Daines official U.S. House site
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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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Co-Chair Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR)

Fax: (202) 225-0032

Rayburn House Office Building, 2134, Washington, DC 20515-

3704

Date of Birth: May 27, 1947

Education: Tufts 1969 BA; Oregon 1977 MS

Home City: Springfield

Religion: Catholic

Current Memberships: Member, Association of Oregon Counties;

Member, National Association of Counties

Career: United States Air Force (1967-1971); Aide, (D-OR),

Office of Representative James H. Weaver, United States House

of Representatives (1977-1982); County Commissioner, Board of

County Commissioners, County of Lane, Oregon (1983-1986);

Member, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness and

Response, Committee on Homeland Security, United States

House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on

Infrastructure and Border Security, Committee on Homeland

Security, United States House of Representatives; Ranking,

Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and

Infrastructure, United States House of Representatives; Member,

Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation,

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, United States

House of Representatives; Member, Vietnam Era Veterans in

Congress, United States Congress; Incumbent, Oregon, District

4, DeFazio for Congress (2004); Ranking, Subcommittee on

Highways, Transit and Pipelines, Committee on Transportation

and Infrastructure, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure

Protection, and Cybersecurity, Committee on Homeland Security,

United States House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee

on Highways and Transit, Committee on Transportation and

Infrastructure, United States House of Representatives; Member,

Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on

Natural Resources, United States House of Representatives

(202) 225-6416

Co-Chair Doc Hastings (R-WA)

Fax: (202) 225-3251

Longworth House Office Building, 1214, Washington, DC 20515-

4704

Date of Birth: February 7, 1941

Education: Central Washington; Columbia Basin

Home City: Pasco

Current Memberships: Member, Pasco-Kennewick Rotary Club;

Member, The United States Junior Chamber (Jaycees)

Career: U.S. Army Reserve (1963-1969); State Representative

(R-WA), Washington State Legislature (1979-1987); President,

Columbia Basin Paper and Supply (1983-1994); Member,

Western Caucus, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Committee on the Budget, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Committee on Standards of Official

Conduct, United States House of Representatives; Chairman,

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, United States

House of Representatives; Chairman, Subcommittee on Rules

and the Organization of the House, Committee on Rules, United

States House of Representatives; Assistant Majority Whip, Office

of Republican Whip Roy Blunt, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus,

United States House of Representatives; Member, House

Navy/Marine Corps Caucus, United States House of

Representatives

(202) 225-5816

House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Europe,

Committee on International Relations, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Congressional Caucus on Community

Health Centers, United States House of Representatives;

Member, New Democrat Coalition, United States House of

Representatives; Co-Chair, Public Broadcasting Caucus, United

States House of Representatives; Member, Vietnam Era

Veterans in Congress, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations,

Committee on International Relations, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Committee on Transportation and

Infrastructure, United States House of Representatives; Member,

Committee on Foreign Relations, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Africa, Global

Human Rights and International Operations, Committee on

Foreign Affairs, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Committee on

International Relations, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Committee on

Transportation and Infrastructure, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Railroads,

Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Committee on

Transportation and Infrastructure, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Water Resources

and the Environment, Committee on Transportation and

Infrastructure, United States House of Representatives; Co-Chair,

Army Corps of Engineers Reform Caucus, United States House

of Representatives; Member, Congressional Asian Pacific

American Caucus, United States Congress

Member Norman D. Dicks (D-WA)

Fax: (202) 226-1176

Rayburn House Office Building, 2467, Washington, DC 20515-

4706

Date of Birth: December 16, 1940

Education: U Washington 1963 BA, 1968 JD

Home City: Belfair

Religion: Lutheran

Current Memberships: Member, Council on Foreign Relations;

Honorary Member, Kiwanis International; Member, Puget Sound

Naval Bases Association; Honorary Member, Rotary

International; Member, Sigma Nu Fraternity, Inc.; Member,

Washington State Bar Association

Career: Legislative Assistant, (D-WA), Office of Senator Warren

G. Magnuson, United States Senate (1968-1973); Administrative

Assistant, (D-WA), Office of Senator Warren G. Magnuson,

United States Senate (1973-1976); Speaker of the House

Appointed Board Member, U.S. Air Force Academy; Co-Chair,

Congressional Air Power Caucus, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Infrastructure and

Border Security, Committee on Homeland Security, United States

House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Military

Construction, Committee on Appropriations, United States House

of Representatives; Incumbent, Washington, District 6, Norm

Dicks for Congress (2004); Ranking, Subcommittee on Interior,

Environment, and Related Agencies, Committee on

Appropriations, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure

Protection, and Cybersecurity, Committee on Homeland Security,

United States House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee

on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology,

Committee on Homeland Security, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Prevention of

Nuclear and Biological Attack, Committee on Homeland Security,

United States House of Representatives; Member, House

Navy/Marine Corps Caucus, United States House of

Representatives; Member, House Democratic Task Force on

Homeland Security, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Congressional Caucus to Fight and Control

Methamphetamine, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Congressional Caucus on Community Health Centers,

United States House of Representatives; Member, U.S.-New

Zealand Congressional Caucus, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus,

United States House of Representatives; Co-Chair, Electronic

Warfare Working Group, United States House of

Representatives; Member, National Service Caucus, United

States House of Representatives; Member, House Military Depot

and Industrial Facilities Caucus, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Congressional Port Security Caucus,

United States House of Representatives; Member, Congression

Member, Congressional Zoo and Aquarium Caucus, United

States House of Representatives; Member, The District of

Columbia Bar; Director, Board of Directors, Washington State

China Relations Council

Member Darlene Hooley (D-OR)

E-mail: dhooley@lwv.org

Fax: (202) 225-5699

Rayburn House Office Building, 2430, Washington, DC 20515-

3705

Date of Birth: April 4, 1939

Education: Oregon State 1961 BS

Home City: West Linn

Religion: Lutheran

Current Memberships: Member, League of Women Voters

Career: Member, City Council, City of West Linn, Oregon (1977-

1981); State Representative (D-OH), Oregon Legislative

Assembly (1981-1987); Commissioner (D-OR), County of

Clackamas, Oregon (1987-1996); Member, Committee on

Veterans’ Affairs, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Veterans’

Affairs, United States House of Representatives; Ranking,

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on

Veterans’ Affairs, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Committee on the Budget, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Domestic and

International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology, Committee

on Financial Services, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Executive Council, New Democrat Coalition, United

States House of Representatives; Ranking, Subcommittee on

Research, Committee on Science, United States House of

Representatives; Senior Minority Whip, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Committee on Financial Services,

United States House of Representatives; Member, Committee on

Veterans’ Affairs, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Committee on Science, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Research and

Science Education, Committee on Science and Technology,

United States House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee

on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored

Enterprises, Committee on Financial Services, United States

House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on Financial

Institutions and Consumer Credit, Committee on Financial

Services, United States House of Representatives; Member,

Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, Committee on

Veterans’ Affairs, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous

Materials, Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States

House of Representatives (2007)

(202) 225-5711

Member Jay R. Inslee (D-WA)

Fax: (202) 226-1606

E-mail: jay.inslee@mail.house.gov

Cannon House Office Building, 403, Washington, DC 20515-4701

Date of Birth: February 9, 1951

Education: U Washington 1972 BA; Willamette 1976 JD

Home City: Bainbridge Island

Religion: Christian

Current Memberships: Charter Member, Hoopaholics

Career: Attorney, Peters, Fowler and Inslee (1976-1992); State

Representative (D-WA), Washington House of Representatives

(1989-1993); Vice Chair, Appropriations Committee, Washington

House of Representatives; U.S. Representative, (D-WA, District

1), Office of Representative Jay Inslee, United States House of

Representatives (1993-1995); Attorney, Gordon, Thomas,

Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim L.L.P. (1995-1996);

Regional Director, Region X, United States Department of Health

and Human Services, William J. Clinton Administration (1997-

1998); Member, Committee on Resources, United States House

of Representatives; Member, Committee on Financial Services,

United States House of Representatives; Ranking, Subcommittee

on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, United

States House of Representatives; Member, Subcommittee on

Environment and Hazardous Materials, Committee on Energy

and Commerce, United States House of Representatives;

Member, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health,

Committee on Natural Resources, United States House of

Representatives; Member, Congressional Caucus on India and

Indian American