UPDATE 3/4/2021: According to Senator Jon Tester s office, the resolution passed Wednesday night and National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week officially began on February 28, 2021.
Montana House argues ranchers, farmers are getting squeeze by big packers.
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Darrell Ehrlick / Daily Montanan | 3:41 pm, Feb. 24, 2021 ×
State veterinarian Dr. Marty Zaluski testifies on House Bill 336 in the House Agriculture Committee on Feb. 23, 2021 (Montana Public Access Network)
Montana livestock producers and meat packers have a beef with how Montana grown meat is processed, and several, including Montana’s Speaker of the House, want to reinvent the system.
Their idea, presented in House Bill 336, would forge an interstate compact or agreement between willing states that would adhere to the same regulations as federally inspected meat-packing plants so that packers and ranchers could market products across state lines. Currently, in order to transport meat across state lines it has to be processed in a federally-inspected facility. Critics say the cumbersome process, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is set up to maintain a strangleho
McConnell Moans About ‘Bipartisan Unity’ After Dems Tee Up COVID Package Through Reconciliation Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after the Republican s weekly Senate luncheon in the Capitol on December 8, 2020. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) February 5, 2021 7:52 a.m.
After spending six years gleefully steamrolling Democrats over judicial appointments, particularly with regards to the Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was suddenly appalled at the notion of eschewing bipartisanship early Friday morning after Senate Democrats passed a procedural hurdle to consider President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 package through budget reconciliation, thereby dodging inevitable GOP obstruction.
HELENA, Mont.- The future of the Keystone XL pipeline project remains unclear, and so does it s impact in Montana. On his first day in office, President Biden stopped production, saying plans were not consistent with the administration s economic and climate values.
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The 1,700 mile project runs through a large part of the state and would ship nearly 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast. Both sides oppose the President s permit suspension because of significant job loss in Montana.
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Exact numbers weren t easy to find because it s winter and there aren t many Montanans working on the Keystone project right now. Montana s employment numbers aren t major compared to estimated projections of nearly 60,000 total jobs lost, but hundreds of Treasure State jobs could be on the line.Â