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Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, on April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Daines tees up legislation to reverse Biden’s ban on coal mining at major hub

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Senator wants Washington Commanders to pay tribute to an old logo that offends many Indigenous

By Graham Lee Brewer - Associated Press

Helmets are lined up along the practice field as players begin drills during the first day of the Washington Redskins NFL football training camp in Richmond, Va., Thursday, July 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

Senator plans to block RFK Stadium legislation unless Commanders honor Indian logo designer

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, in Durham, N.H. The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 19, declared Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha) **FILE**

Trump’s Colorado ballot appeal gets legal boost from Senate Republicans

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Workers finish tending a street lamp as smoke from Canadian wildfires obscures the view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, Thursday, June 8, 2023. The haze from the wildfires is taking its toll on outdoor workers along the Eastern U.S. who carried on with their jobs even as dystopian orange skies forced the cancelation of sports events, school field trips and Broadway plays. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Heavy smoke helps cloud political rift between climate, forest management

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This photo shows a view of the ARM-structure server processor Yitian 710, developed by Alibaba's in-house semiconductor unit T-Head, at the Apsara Conference, an annual cloud service technology forum hosted by Alibaba Group, in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on Oct. 19, 2021. To help make China a self-reliant &quot;technology superpower,&quot; the ruling Communist Party is pushing the world's biggest e-commerce company to take on the tricky, expensive business of designing its own processor chips, a business unlike anything Alibaba Group has done before. (Chinatopix via AP)

Republicans say Biden’s rules for firms competing with China on chips make U.S. less competitive

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Oil and natural gas drilling accounted for 94% of funding for the Great American Outdoors Act projects in 2021. Biden restrictions for leasing sales on public lands have slowed the flow of money for the largest federal conservation program in 50 years. (Associated Press)

The Great Undoing: Biden’s squeeze on oil and gas leasing drains conservation fund

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Senate GOP pledges to cut off funding for Biden’s disinformation board

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks to reporters on the campus of Montana State University Billings in Billings, Mont., on April 23, 2021. Pressure is building for Congress to pass legislation that would curtail lawmakers' ability to speculate on the stock market. Public anger over congressional stock trading has mounted since the first tremors of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Republicans call to cancel Senate’s Citibank contract over ‘abortion tourism’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks to reporters on the campus of Montana State University Billings in Billings, Mont., on April 23, 2021. Pressure is building for Congress to pass legislation that would curtail lawmakers' ability to speculate on the stock market. Public anger over congressional stock trading has mounted since the first tremors of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

2 GOP lawmakers become first to visit war-torn Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. President Joe Biden shut down oil and gas lease sales from the nation's vast public lands and waters in his first days in office, citing worries about climate change. Now his administration has to figure out what do with the multibillion dollar program without crushing a significant sector of the U.S. economy, while fending off sharp criticism from congressional Republicans and the oil industry. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Steve Daines says curb high energy costs with more oil, gas production on fed lands

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, Montana Republican, speaks to reporters on the campus of Montana State University Billings in Billings, Mont., on Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) **FILE**

Daines raps Biden calling climate change a threat to U.S. ‘financial stability’: ‘Virtue signaling’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

A girl from Afghanistan waits with other evacuees to fly to the United States or an other save location in a makeshift departure gate inside a hanger at the United States Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. One of largest American military community overseas gets to a transport hub and houses thousands Afghan evacuees. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Daines demands answers over reports child traffickers among Afghan evacuees

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the nomination of Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of Health and Human Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: Daines urges Biden to reassert U.S. strength against China after Afghanistan imbroglio

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Tracy Stone-Manning listens during a confirmation hearing for her to be the director of the Bureau of Land Management, during a hearing of the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Biden BLM pick scrutinized by Senate Republicans over partisan past, personal loan

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this June 4, 2019, file photo, anti-abortion advocates gather outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Planned Parenthood ‘slush fund’ in relief bill despite Republican efforts

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., listens during a confirmation hearing for Secretary of Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (Leigh Vogel/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Joe Manchin, Jon Tester vote to kill pro-Keystone amendment after voting for it: ‘Swampy’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2021, file photo, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., joined by his wife Cindy Daines, raises his hand to take the oath of office from Vice President Mike Pence during a reenactment ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Washington. After months of tacitly or directly supporting President Donald Trump's denial of the results of the 2020 election, top Montana Republicans denounced the violence that took over the nation's Capitol and delayed Congress' certification of the presidential election for Joe Biden. But one of them doubled down. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool, File)

Daines says he still backs Trump, rejects calls for ouster

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Montana Republicans who support Trump denounce violence

By AMY BETH HANSON - Associated Press

Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared in Olive Branch, Mississippi, on Sunday. The first boxes are set to arrive Monday. (Associated Press)

Steve Daines: COVID-19 vaccine ‘early Christmas present’ for Americans

By David Sherfinski and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times