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State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy stripped of interim committee assignments

State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy stripped of interim committee assignments

Legislative leaders from both sides of the aisle removed state Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, from his interim committee and commission assignments Monday. Interim committees and commissions meet between Montana’s biannual legislative sessions to discuss issues and draft policy. Windy Boy’s removal from two interim committees

Legislative leaders remove Sen. Windy Boy from interim committees

The Montana Legislature’s Committee on Committees at its May 4 meeting unanimously voted to remove Democratic Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy from two interim committees at the request of Senate President Matt Regier, R-Kalispell, and Minority Leader Pat Flowers, D-Bozeman. Windy Boy, one of the longest-serving members

GOP senators renew calls to nuke filibuster after voter ID bill languishes

(The Center Square) – With Congress juggling government funding, the farm bill, government surveillance reauthorization and more, a Republican election security bill has taken a backseat, much to the chagrin of President Donald Trump. As U.S. lawmakers take a week-long recess, Trump and a vocal minority of Republican senators

Data centers — your electric bill could go up 3 to 6 times what you now pay | Thomas E. Towe

Data centers — your electric bill could go up 3 to 6 times what you now pay | Thomas E. Towe

I submit that data centers present the biggest challenge Montana has faced since the federal government released the North Central Power Study in 1971. This study said Montana, with 25% of the minable coal in the United States, should build 21 coal fired electrical generating plants in this state. As

Montana Democrats charge ahead in U.S. Senate race scattered with surprises, conspiracy

BILLINGS — When a barrage of postcards slamming Reilly Neill started hitting voter mailboxes last week, the frontrunner in the Democratic primary for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat laughed. Plastered onto the mailer is a photo of Neill holding a “Kamala” sign from the former vice president’s White House

House committee advances FISA, farm, budget to floor vote

(The Center Square) – The U.S. House Rules committee, in a 9-4 vote, advanced the farm bill, FISA extension and Senate-passed budget resolution to the House floor for a vote. The committee met in a marathon two-day session to consider amendments to the Farm, Food and National

Sheehy says he’ll introduce legislation to approve Trump’s White House ballroom

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, is one of at least three members of Congress who responded to the shooting at the White House Press Correspondents dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, calling on lawmakers to approve plans for a ballroom at the White House. President