Tag: Montana

The Story: The major party candidates for Governor of Montana are: Mike Cooney (D), the incumbent's lieutenant governor, and Greg Gianforte (R), the co-founder of...

The Story: Montana has an eight year (two term) limit for the tenure of a Governor. Accordingly, Governor Steve Bullock (D) is not qualified to...

The Story: The field was already an unprecedentedly crowded one: so, what's one candidate more? On Tuesday, May 14, Governor Steve Bullock of Montana announced...

“I think a lot of legislators thought that the process was being circumvented, and I didn’t care to have it keep going,” Sen. Keith Regier, R-Kalispell, told MTN News on Tuesday. “I’m disappointed for the people of Montana because it is a serious problem in this state,” he said. “When one to two people die every week because of impaired drivers, that’s serious.” The proposal, crafted originally by Republican Attorney General Tim Fox, would have taken a number of steps to attempt to reduce drunken driving, including the use of blood draws from first-time drunken-driving suspects. “Without that hard evidence, it’s hard to get a conviction,” Regier said. In an interview Tuesday, Fox told MTN News that he, too, is disappointed that the bill didn’t pass — but said he plans to keep working on the issue. “Montana, unfortunately, is a state that leads the nation in the number of DUI deaths and DUI, in general, per capita.” Other elements of the bill included increasing fines for serial DUI offenders and making it harder for DUI offenders to get those offenses removed from their record. Regier’s Senate Bill 65, which contained the original proposals, passed the Senate but was killed last Friday by the House Judiciary Committee, with both Republicans and Democrats voting against it. However, late that same evening, Regier and others decided to take parts of the bill and place them in a lengthy amendment that would be offered to another bill Saturday morning, in the Senate Finance and Claims Committee. The committee voted Saturday morning to place the DUI language into House Bill 685, a one-page “companion bill” that had a broad title and had been sitting in committee with virtually no content. Story by Mike Dennison, MTN News

Montana U.S. Sen. Steve Daines told lawmakers in Helena on Friday to put party politics aside when considering legislation, emphasized the need to pass funding for border security and said it was critical to address the epidemic of missing and murdered Native women in Montana. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester spoke to legislators last month and U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte will speak on Monday. Funding for a border wall was the trigger of a 35-day partial federal government shutdown that ended a week ago. President Donald Trump has refused any budget deal that doesn't include $5.7 billion for wall along the southern border. Stopgap funding re-opened the government until Feb. 15 and Trump has said there's a "good chance" he'd declare a national emergency to obtain funding for the wall. In December Daines called for using a "nuclear option" by changing the U.S. Senate rules to require only 51 votes to pass funding for the wall. Those critical of calls to build a wall along the southern border point out the fentanyl was seized at a border crossing, not at a location proposed for a wall. The economy was also a focus of Daines' speech, both its successes and where he sees the need for improvement. The Republican tax cuts passed in 2017 have benefited Montanans to the tune of about $1,000 more annually in their paychecks, Daines said, and told lawmakers not to add any more taxes following on the heels of cuts at the federal level. Montana legislators this week heard a bill called Hanna's Act, the main legislation in a package of five bills related to missing and murdered Native women.

In an exclusive 'Fox & Friends' interview, President Trump says the anonymous op-ed published in the New York Times is 'unfair' to the country. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as…

While the White House faces questions about who's really in charge, a reportedly 'incensed' Trump went to a Montana rally blasting the NYT op-ed and reliving his 2016 win. Jonathan Lemire, Nancy Cook, & Eli Stokols weigh in. » Subscribe…

Reports describe an increasingly paranoid President Trump after the anonymous NYT op-ed written by a senior WH official. But at a rally in Montana tonight, Trump reflected on impeachment and all the people who say "he's lost it." Tim O'Brien…

Watch LIVE at 9pm EST: President Trump will be in Billings, Montana hosting a campaign rally. The event comes on the heels of an explosive confirmation hearing for Trump's SCOTUS nominee, as well as a damning op-ed in the New…

The Interior Department's inspector general is investigating whether Zinke colluded to have Halliburton's chairman build him the microbrewery he's always wanted in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth…