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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS - Republican Tim Sheehy bolstered the GOP's Senate majority with a victory over three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in a contest of national importance that featured a record-setting torrent of spending by the two sides. Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, closely aligned his campaign with Donald Trump and leading conservatives while painting Tester as a corrupt Washington insider. The Republican also promised to address the...
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate and are fighting to keep their majority in the U.S. House, which would produce a full sweep of GOP power in Congress alongside President-elect Donald Trump in the White House. A unified Republican grip on Washington would set the course for Trump's agenda. Or if Democrats wrest control of the House, it would provide an almost certain backstop, with veto p...
The polls will be open for people to cast their ballots next Tuesday in person, although mail-in ballots have been out for several weeks. Due to printing deadlines, Havre Weekly Chronicle will not be able to publish a story on the results in next week’s print edition, but people can look for updates and results at www.havredaillynews.com Tuesday night and Wednesday. The election has several hotly contested elections, from the top down to local races. The most visible race is for president, with Republican former president D...
Published Oct. 10, 2024 Greetings from Oregon! My grade school years in Butte were the happiest years of my childhood. I have never lost my love of Montana. I was stunned when I found a group of billionaires who wanted to keep their Trump tax breaks were slamming Jon Tester with tv adds to unseat him and put their Minnesota native representative in his place. Jon Tester is a native Montana farmer who still comes to his farm to work the planting and the harvest. He is your guy. Your other Senator voted against the infrastructu...
For months, I have been bedeviled by a TV ad with a handsome young couple meeting with their “wealth advisor.” The couple stirs from their daydreams about going on safari for their honeymoon when their advisor asks what they would like to invest their money in. They reply that they would like to buy a ranch, with horses, in Montana. Now I know, from a lifetime as part of the agricultural sector and 24 years in the State Senate, that the best farms and ranches, the greatest pillars of their communities, for multiple gen...
As a former Republican State Legislator here in Montana, a young woman, and a proud fifth-generation Montanan, I find Tim Sheehy’s most recently uncovered comments incredibly dismissive and offensive to young voters across Montana. Sheehy has been on record stating that women under the age of 30 are “indoctrinated” and “single-issue voters” for caring about reproductive rights this election. The issue of reproductive freedom may not be necessary to him, but it is an essential issue to many young Montana women. Sheehy’s...
Press release Sen. Jon Tester announced Friday that he was awarded the Friend of the Farm Bureau Award from the American Farm Bureau Federation, one of the country's largest agricultural organizations. "I'm proud to take my cues from Montana's farmers and ranchers – and I would like to thank the Montana Farm Bureau for its work advocating on behalf of our states number one industry, agriculture. Whether it's by working to support irrigators impacted by the catastrophic siphon...
Staff and wire Some help is available for for farmers and ranchers impacted by June’s catastrophic failure of the STt. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Montana announced it is accepting applications for the St. Mary Initiative. Farmers and ranchers in Blaine, Glacier, Hill, Phillips, and Valley counties including the Blackfeet Nation and the Fort Belknap Indian Community directly impacted by the St. Mary Canal siphon failure should visit their local NRCS office now to a...
As a public school teacher at F.E. Miley Elementary in Big Sandy, I took great pride in preparing my students to be the next generation of Montana leaders. The students who walked in and out of my classroom all had the potential to impact our state in meaningful ways: as nurses and doctors in communities along the Hi-Line that desperately need more folks in medicine; as police officers and firefighters keeping their hometowns safe; as farmers and small business owners moving our state’s economy forward. Many of my students s...
Editor’s note. After saying early in his campaign that “our hospitals have been built around federal subsidies. In my opinion, we need to return health care to pure privatization,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy has since said that he does not support eliminating Medicaid or Medicare. Montana is home to around 16 Federally Qualified Health Centers (CHCs), including Partnership Health in Missoula, Sapphire CHC in Hamilton, and others across the state including in Havre, Chinook and Harlem. These centers provi...
Press release As part of his continued effort support Montana small businesses and agricultural producers, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont, secured $1,399,985 for Old Salt Meat Company to finance meat processing in the state. Old Salt Meat Company is a cooperatively owned livestock processor focused on driving value and return to producers while helping consumers access to locally raised beef. The funding will be used to establish a USDA-inspected slaughter facility, scale up their fabrication space under USDA inspection, and...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the name of the writer of the editorial. Recently, I listened to a radio interview with Tim Sheehy on Working Ranch radio show that is very concerning. When Tim Sheehy was asked about MCOOL (mandatory country of origin label) his answer sided with the packers. He said they should have the ability to mix foreign beef with US beef without being penalized. To be clear the only penalty that the packers now have is to not to dishonestly label their products. He said that mixing in foreign b...
Sen. Jon Tester announced last Thursday that he had secured another $2 million to repair the catastrophic failure of two siphons in the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works that shut down the water being diverted to the Milk River. "It is critically important for irrigators who rely on the Milk River Project that we get water flowing as soon as possible," said Tester. "I'm glad to see that significant progress is already being made, but we've got to keep this project fully...
Mr. Sheehy: The following ad promoting demonstrably false and dangerous misinformation airing on Montana television paid for by the Tim Sheehy Campaign for U.S. Senate featuring Nora Fouhy of Billings has come to our attention. In the ad Ms. Fouhy makes the following statement: “For 50 years I worked and paid into Social Security and Medicare. But Joe Biden and Democratic politicians have raided the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Jon Tester is one of the worst. Tester supported huge cuts in Social Security while s...
When prominent former Montana Republican elected officials Marc Racicot and Bob Brown and other members of Republicans for Tester recently endorsed Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont, in the 2024 election, they drew a scathing rejoinder from the campaign of his opponent. "'Republicans for Tester' makes about as much sense as a jumbo shrimp - 'Two-Faced Tester' has made a career of serving at the pleasure of New York's Chuck Schumer to advance their 'Montana Last' agenda while pretending...
Press release U.S. Sen. Jon Tester announced last Thursday that the cost of 10 lifesaving prescription drugs will officially be lowered as a result of the first price negotiations authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act. An estimated nearly 25,000 Montana seniors on Medicare will see cost savings up to 79% thanks to Tester’s law, and Medicare enrollees across the country are expected to save $1.5 billion on out-of-pocket costs when the new prices go into effect. The reduced prices for Montanans were announced today as a r...
Editors note: This version includes a comment from Tim Sheehy campaign spokesperson Jackie O’Brien that was received after the printing deadline for this edition. Watch for more in next week’s Havre Weekly Chronicle. Two local politicians have received unusual endorsements, endorsements from major Montana Republicans. Former Montana Gov., Attorney General and Republican National Committee Chair Marc Racicot has endorsed Rep. Paul Tuss, D-Havre, in his race to retain his seat in a race against Republican former Rep. Ed Hil...
Staff and wire report Montana VA Health Care System recently passed the 35,000 mark for Toxic Exposure Screenings given to Montana Veterans. Toxic exposure screenings provide Veterans with the medical verification that they need to gain full access to health care and benefits under the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act. The PACT Act was signed into law on August 10, 2022, and expands VA health care and benefits for Veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances. The law helps the VA p...
We want to thank the U.S. House of Representatives, which unanimously passed H.R. 4132, the Falun Gong Protection Act, on June 25, which aims to end forced organ harvesting and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. This resolution will also protect U.S. citizens, institutions, the transplant community, and American medical centers from unknowingly supporting this crime against humanity. In July 1999, then-Chinese Communist Party head Jiang Zemin decided that Falun Gong’s popularity and spiritual tenets threate...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced Friday that U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced it will start work “immediately” to rehabilitate the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works that supplies much of the water that flows through the Milk River each year. Gov. Greg Gianforte also announced the news in a release Tuesday. “I’m grateful for this much needed federal assistance to repair the St. Mary and Halls Coulee siphons,” Gianforte said. “The State of Montana stands ready to assist local and federal officials in responding...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced Friday that U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced it will start work "immediately" to rehabilitate the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works that supplies much of the water that flows through the Milk River each year. Tester said in a release that the administration of President Joe Biden announced Friday that the work will be done, following a catastrophic failure June 17 of two siphons in the system that carries water across 29 miles and...
Montana’s federal lawmakers are scrambling to pass a bill they have been working on for years — decades in the making — that would provide funding to rehabilitate and repair the failed irrigation system that provides much of the water in the Milk River each year. The Senate acted quickly last Thursday to unanimously pass a bill that includes funding St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance, money that could repair a catastrophic failure that shut the system down. The Senate passed Thursday by unanimous consent the Fort Belkn...
A siphon on the more-than-100-year-old system that provides much - almost all, in drought years - to the Milk River broke Monday, shutting down the system. The Montana Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation area manager said Tuesday the bureau was waiting for the water to finish flowing out of the breached siphons on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works and is working to get a feel for impacts caused by the breach and looking at possible models for replacement or...
From U.S. Department of the Interior WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced that 56 local governments in Montana will receive a total of $43.3 million in Payments in Lieu of Taxes funding for 2024. Because local governments cannot tax Federal lands, annual PILT payments help to defray the costs associated with maintaining important community services. A release from U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., lists the Montana payments, which included $1,258,897 for Blaine County, $483,587 for Chouteau County, $...
There are 33 million reasons to protect Medicare Advantage. That’s how many American seniors and persons with disabilities rely on the program for affordable health care with more benefits and better health outcomes at a lower cost than fee-for-service Medicare. I should know — as a senior living with tight margins every month, the cost of my health care is very important to me given the increase in costs of just about everything these days. Thankfully, Sen. Jon Tester has long been a supporter of Medicare Advantage, a pro...
