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  • Daines Stands Up for Montanans' Second Amendment Rights, Pushes Back Against Biden's Effort to Increase Oversight, Regulations on Guns

    KATHERINE McKEOGH, Office of Steve Daines|Oct 6, 2021

    U.S. Senator Steve Daines pushed back against President Biden’s attempt to infringe upon Montanans’ Second Amendment rights by joining the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), an international agreement that would increase international oversight and regulate trade in firearms. Biden’s attempt to join the ATT comes after a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate rejected ratifying it in 2013. “The vague language of the ATT makes American commitments uncertain, the most concerning of which is the lack of protections for lawful gun ownership which...

  • Daines Will Vote Against Increasing the Debt by $256 Billion

    Katherine McKeogh, Office of Steve Daines|Aug 11, 2021

    U.S. Senator Steve Daines announced he will vote against the $1.2 trillion package moving through the Senate after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its analysis showing the bill will increase the federal debt by $256 billion. Daines’ announcement comes after Montanans and the American people were promised the bill would be fully paid for and not increase the debt, during and after negotiations. “Montanans were told and promised that this massive, 2,700-page bill would not increase the debt. Unfortunately, according to...

  • Daines Continues Push for Delisting of Grizzly Bear in Montana

    Katherine McKeogh, Office of Senator Steve Daines|Aug 4, 2021

    At a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing, U.S. Senator Steve Daines urged Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to listen to the science of her own agency officials, delist the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE), and return management back to the state of Montana. “While these two recovered populations languish on the Endangered Species list, conflicts with grizzlies are on the rise—Montana has seen two tragic fatalities already this year,” Daines said. “Mon...