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As a 23-year U.S. military commander, I’ve always been mission-focused, and no mission is too big or too small to take on with everything I have. Whether it’s hunting terrorists in the Middle East, winterizing the house or fighting for Montana in Congress, I always take the same mission-critical approach as your representative in Congress. For the past 21 months, you’ve tasked me with the mission to strengthen Montana’s voice in Congress. It’s no secret that Montana priorities were being ignored. Before you sent me to Congre...
Before Thanksgiving we had a hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee about the Land and Water Conservation Fund, or LWCF. When talking with my colleagues from all over the country about LWCF, I ask them to imagine America without iconic national parks such as Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Acadia, and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks. All of those parks were created by the LWCF. Since Americans first set eyes on the natural beauty of our country, it has been one of our shared values that those lands must be...
Right now, there are nine active wildfires in Montana, burning thousands of acres of our cherished national parks, forests and grasslands. Hundreds of thousands of acres in California are burning too. This is in part because of the dry and hot weather we’ve had, but even more so due to decades of poor management of our federal forests. The evidence? One need look no farther than one of the first fires of the season, the Glacier Rim Fire which quickly burned about 100 acres of dead timber and thick regrowth brush in the s...
I am often asked "why run for office given the present political environment of distrust, misrepresentation, and personal attacks?" The simple answer is that I care about working families and the legacy we leave our children. I care about having better jobs and better education. I care about using our public lands for the benefit of all and developing our resources without harming our environment. I also care about the future of our country and believe the failure of partisan politics has put our nation and our state at...