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On Thursday Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and running mate U.S. Representative Paul Ryan released their comprehensive energy proposal aimed at the goal of American energy independence by 2020. The ambitious plan involves returning authority for energy production back to the states, opening offshore oil production, developing a North American Energy Partnership and… Read more »

Washington, DC – Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) released the following statement in support of the U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Read more »

WICHITA, KS – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued its ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Cross State Air Pollution Rule. In the ruling, the majority held that the EPA’s rule violated the existing statute and overstepped the rules laid out by the U.S. Congress. Read more »

Alaska Railroad employees will be honoring Alaskan Congressman Don Young tomorrow for the work he did on the recent highway bill conference committee. Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Kristi Noem today sent a letter to President Obama to seek his assistance in building a stronger bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House for a Farm Bill. Read more »

August 16, 2012 - Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) today announced the U.S. Forest Service will resume its nighttime firefighting program to battle out-of-control wildfires in Southern California. Previously, the Forest Service restricted aerial firefighting operations to daylight hours only. Read more »

It’s no secret that things in Washington, D.C. are a mess. What’s less commonly understood is that, while the gridlock between Republicans and Democrats grabs headlines, for Montana the bigger conflicts arise between rural and urban interests. Read more »

ANCHORAGE, AK – Alaskan Congressman Don Youngtoday challenged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 Administrator Dennis McLerran’s claim that the federal agency had received “well over 90 percent” support for the agency’s Draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment. Read more »

Washington, D.C. – The House today reauthorized critical livestock disaster assistance programs for drought-stricken producers in South Dakota and across the nation. Rep. Kristi Noem joined a bipartisan majority of her colleagues in voting to reauthorize these programs by a vote of 223-197. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today voted for H.R. 6233 the Supplemental Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act, which reauthorizes disaster assistance programs that expired at the end of the 2011 fiscal year. Read more »