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Montana's federal lawmakers and President Barack Obama are in agreement on an issue working through Congress — members of Congress should play by the same rules in finances as everyone else. The Senate, on a 93-2 vote, approved Monday moving a bill that would prohibit members of Congress and their families or staff members from using nonpublic information in financial dealings and to report transactions online within 30 days. All annual financial disclosures be available online. "This is a wake-up call for all of Congress ...
Montana's two U. S. senators issued a release Wednesday praising Senate passage of an amendment restoring the U. S. military's ability to buy biofuels. A House defense authorization bill and the Senate version had prohibited the military from buying or producing biofuels if it could buy or produce petroleum fuel more cheaply. The amendment passed 62-37, with all but two "nay" votes — from Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W. Va. — coming from Republicans. Eleven Republicans did, however, join the Democrats in pas...
HELENA (AP) — Former Attorney General Joe Mazurek died Tuesday due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 64. The well-known Democrat was diagnosed with the disease in 2007, prior to his 60th birthday, and forced to retire from active legal practice just a couple of years later. He died at an assisted living facility in Helena after the disease progressed rapidly in recent months, according to his former law office. Mazurek was first elected state attorney general in 1992, after serving for more than a decade as a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The end game at hand, the White House and Senate leaders launched a final attempt at compromise Friday night in hopes of preventing a toxic blend of middle-class tax increases and spending cuts from taking effect at the turn of the new year. "I am hopeful and optimistic" of reaching an agreement after months of gridlock, the Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said after a meeting with President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders at the White House. AP Photo/ Evan Vucci Senate M...
The year 2012 was tumultuous in agriculture in north-central Montana, with weather a major question throughout the year, and changes seen and proposed in federal farm policy that could change how the industry operates in significant fashions. While what will come out of the next Farm Bill at this point is unknown, changes already are happening in the controversial Conservation Reserve Program, leading some north-central Montana agricultural producers to let their land lapse out of the program. Changes in worldwide production...
A wide ranging bill Montana's junior senator says will help sportsmen and the federal budget stalled in the U. S. Senate Monday in what Democratic Sen. Jon Tester called a party-line vote. "Along with 90 million sportsmen and women, I'm disappointed that Republicans and Democrats couldn't work together today to pass this bipartisan bill, " Tester said in a statement Monday. "Protecting our outdoor traditions and strengthening our outdoor economy shouldn't be a partisan issue. This bill will create jobs and strengthen our smal...
Laurel — The Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump has been around for 2,000 years, and we hope it will be around for another 2,000 years. It has a lot of lessons to teach us about those who lived on what we called the Hi-Line two millennium ago. In another 2,000 years, we hope, there will be an interpretive center at the site, and it will still be named the John & Anna Brumley Interpretive Center. John Brumley, a Havre High School student 50 years ago, became the modern-day discoverer of the site. He and his wife, Anna, have become t...
Montana's Rep. Dennis Rehberg is again pushing to force allowing a Canadian company to build an oil pipeline through Montana. Rehberg and 46 other representatives — all but one Republican — Monday cosponsored a bill by Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., that removes the requirement that President Barack Obama approve a permit before TransCanada Corp. begins construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the South Dakota-Nebraska border. "The Obama Administration and its environmental obstructionist allies are doing eve...
With drought conditions spreading farther across the state and intensifying in the nation, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday it is adding 27 more Montana counties, including Blaine and Chouteau, to the list where emergency haying and grazing of land in the Conservation Reserve Program. "This change allows CRP lands that are not yet classified 'under severe drought' but that are 'abnormally dry' to be used for haying and grazing, " said state Farm Service Agency Director Bruce Nelson, who has returned to...
HELENA — Superintendent of schools Denise Juneau was among 10 women selected Wednesday to speak at next month's Democratic National Convention, a move made as the party continues to make issues affecting women a priority this election season. The speakers also include one of Juneau's predecessors at the Montana Office of Public Instruction, Nancy Keenan. Keenan is now president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. Democrats in the state consider Juneau, a Native American from Browning, a rising star for the party. She is wrapping u...
As Montana's U. S. senators announce a proposal to provide a secure funding source for rural water projects, the Indian tribe working on one of those projects announced a milestone. The Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation announced Friday that its Tribal Water Resource Department has accepted the operations and maintenance responsibilities on behalf of the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs for the core system of the Rocky Boy's/North Central Montana Regional Water System. The day before the tribe announced...
With the U. S. House of Representatives expected to go into recess this afternoon, some are pointing to what actions it hasn't taken more than what it has done. Montana's U. S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are looking closely at the new Farm Bill. "Three months ago, the Senate came together and passed a full, five-year Farm Bill, " Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said on the floor of the Senate Wednesday. " We didn't kick the can down the road. We passed a bipartisan bill that provides the certainty America's farmers and...
The Montana Grain Growers Association had high praise for the state's U. S. senators working to continue a disaster program through this year. Montana's U. S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester joined Sens. Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, all Democrats, in sponsoring legislation last week to create a one-year extension on U. S. Department of Agriculture ag disaster programs including the Supplemental Revenue Enhancement Program, known as SURE, which provides disaster assistance to ag producers. MGGA...
HELENA — Denny Rehberg often wears cowboy boots while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, telling stories about his ranching background and bashing the "death tax" and "Obamacare," characterizations popular with Montana's rural residents. To Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, the Republican congressman who wants to take his place is all hat and no cattle. AP Photo/Matt Gouras U.S. Sen. John McCain, left, reacts to U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, while campaigning for Rehberg in Great Falls, Mont. Rehberg is e...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the influential Democrat who broke racial barriers on Capitol Hill and played key roles in congressional investigations of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals, died Monday. He was 88. Inouye, a senator since January 1963, was currently the longest serving senator and was president pro tempore of the Senate, third in the line presidential succession. His office said Monday that he died of respiratory complications at a Washington-area hospital. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File S...
Montana's junior U. S. senator is again pushing for action on water in the region, sending a letter to the federal Office of Management and Budget and to the Secretary of the Interior urging money for Montana regional water projects be included in the next budget request. In his letter to Secretary Ken Salazar and OMB Deputy Director for Management and Budget, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said significant investments were made in the Rocky Boy's-North Central Montana Regional Water System and the Fort Peck-Dry Prairie water...
Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp. and member of the Wild Horse Border Committee, speaks Wednesday about the economic impact of upgrading the Port. The committee trying to get a border crossing north of Havre upgraded to a 24-hour commercial port is pushing for a more extensive test of the proposal — a three-year pilot program with 16 hours of operation seven days a week. Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, who co-chairs the Wild Horse Border Committee with Medicine Hat, Alberta, M...
A spokeswoman for the Senate re-election campaign of Jon Tester contacted the Havre Daily News Thursday before the Havre presentation of Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., who is challenging Tester in the election. Alexandra Fetissoff requested the opportunity to respond to comments made by Rehberg and Thursday evening emailed comments, listed below. - Voting with President Barack Obama 95 percent of the time: "This is an arbitrary number based on a handful of votes selected by Congressional Quarterly, " Fetissoff said. "Jon is...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., speaks to supporters Thursday at the Hill County Republican headquarters. Rep. Dennis Rehberg, R-Mont., brought his "Liberate Main Street" tour back to Havre Thursday, on a whirlwind tour of the state between debates against the man he is facing in this year's U. S. Senate race, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. Rehbehg spoke at the Hill County Republican headquarters, campaigning against Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., before heading on to his next stop in Big Sandy. Rehberg's...
Montana State University-Northern in Havre will be represented at Miles Community College in Miles City Wednesday, talking about how the Montana education system can help with workforce development and other issues with the population and economic boom in eastern and northeastern Montana. Tony Preite, director of university outreach and economic development at Northern — who U. S. Sen. Max Baucus appointed as multi-agency rural development coordinator for energy-impacted communities — said this morning that in talking to peo...
7 Dems head to Helena to back Obama Hill County Democrats kicked off what they predicted would be a good year Thursday night by tapping seven people to attend the state Democratic caucus in Helena on Saturday. The state caucus will select delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., this summer. All of Montana's delegates will be pledged to the renomination of President Barack Obama, who handily won the Democratic primary Tuesday. Attending the Helena meeting will be: - Brenda Skornogoski, the party's...
HELENA — Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is hanging on in a brutal re-election battle in Montana despite a drag from President Barack Obama, who is poised to lose big in this sparsely populated, libertarian-minded state. His opponent, Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, has been unable to pull ahead of the first-term senator after trying to tie him to Obama and the president's signature health care law. Victory probably lies in the dwindling ranks of undecided voters. "In Montana, I know where Rep. Rehberg stands at, and I know w...
Currently before Congress is the Parental Rights Amendment which would explicitly define the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children as a fundamental right. Believe it or not, this right is not expressly stated in our Constitution, but is only an implied right. This shortcoming in our Constitution has led to the erosion of parental rights by court decisions and international law. Historically, the Supreme Court consistently maintained that parents possess a "fundamental right to...
HELENA (AP) — BNSF Railway Co. said it has ramped up its operations to meet the anticipated demands of the Bakken oil boom by increasing its shipping capacity, hiring 560 workers in Montana and North Dakota and investing $197 million in projects in those states. The railroad said it can now ship up to 1 million barrels of oil daily from western North Dakota and eastern Montana, which is up from the current daily average of 243,500 barrels. Oil from the Bakken patch is shipped to the East, West and Gulf coasts, the Midwest a...
With the U. S. Postal Service moving forward with plans to consolidate its Kalispell mail sorting facility with Missoula's, Montana's U. S. senators are renewing their call for the U. S. House of Representatives to pass the Senate Postal Service reform. "The Senate passed a commonsense plan to get the Postal Service back on track in April, and it's absolutely unacceptable that we are still waiting for action five months later while jobs are on the line, " Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said in a release. "Targeting rural jobs is...
