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America is in the midst of an energy revolution and Montana is well positioned to be a major player. That was the overwhelming consensus among Montana’s and the country’s energy thought leaders at my second Energy Summit in Billings this past week. Unlike the previous Administration, the Trump Administration has pursued policies that support Western values and have shown they want to work with Montanans instead of put us out of work. Since President Obama left the White Hou...
Montana's crisis isn't too much water or hurricanes – it's fire. It's smoke filling Big Sky Country and filling our lungs, communities being evacuated, structures lost and tons of fuels just lying on the forest floor waiting for a spark to ignite. In this year alone, over 1,600 fires have burned over 1 million acres in Montana - that's nearly equivalent to the entirety of the state of Delaware being on fire. We are tired of being told that others know better than us while we w...
On my most recent telephone town hall with 28,000 Montanans, nearly 95% agreed that meth is a problem in Montana. Certainly, Barbara from Billings knows this to be true – she shared with me that her son is currently recovering from meth. One third of the record 3,400 children in Montana's foster care system are there because of methamphetamine use by their parents. In 2016, 53 percent of the Montana Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation Narcotics Bureau inve...
On June 1, Great Falls was the center of our nation's agriculture conversation as I hosted the Montana Ag Summit, a conversation about the future of jobs in our state's number one economic driver: Agriculture. We had two of the nation's top ag leaders at the Montana Ag Summit: the new U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, and the U.S. Senate Ag Committee Chairman, Pat Roberts. The day before the Summit, Secretary Perdue and Senator Roberts joined me in Cascade, Montana...