{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2024/09/17/daines-biden-harris-energy-policies-destroying-our-montana-way-of-life/", "Daines: \u201cBiden-Harris Energy Policies Destroying Our Montana Way of Life\u201d", "2024-09-17", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "Watch Daines\u2019 remarks HERE.\n\n\u201cI do find it a bit humorous when you hear Kamala Harris talk about \u2018on day one\u2019 to translate three and a half plus years. That\u2019s over 1,300 day ones that she\u2019s had so far.\n\n\u201cBut I\u2019ll tell you what she has been doing. This Administration\u2019s policies are harming our Montana way of life.\n\n\u201cLet me give an example. Just last week, we got the terrible news that the Stillwater mine is laying off 700 miners. The mine is just south of Big Timber in Columbus, Montana. It\u2019s a very important strategic mine for our country, because it produces palladium and platinum. Now these are really good paying jobs. These mining jobs are in the six-figure range, plus a very healthy and generous benefits package. These mines produce platinum and palladium. They\u2019re used in cars and catalytic converters to reduce the pollution that comes out of the exhaust, as well as electronics. And instead of getting palladium from Montana mines, Biden and Harris are allowing Russia to flood the market. That is why the layoffs occurred. The Russians are flooding the U.S. markets. There are very few producers of palladium in the world. They drove the price down and forced the mine to have to lay off about half the workforce, 700 miners.\n\n\u201cAnd adding insult to injury, Vladimir Putin uses that money to fund his war in Ukraine. So these are the consequences of this Administration\u2019s obsession with radical environmentalism, otherwise known as the Green Dream, and now we\u2019re bearing the brunt of these policies.\n\n\u201cHere\u2019s another example. I can tell you; Montanans are tired of breathing smoke during fire season. Last week, there was a kid\u2019s sporting event in Boulder, Montana, canceled due to smoke from wildfires. This is a result of Montanans and many out west of not being able to get in and thin and manage their forests. Proper thinning is a way to reduce the risk of wildfires. And why is that? I\u2019ll tell you why. The Ninth Circuit Court, one of the most liberal in the country, buries our forest managers in litigation and doesn\u2019t allow them to manage the forests. They\u2019re spending all their time with lawyers and litigation instead of getting the loggers into our forests to thin them. They\u2019ve tied up 300 million board feet of timber in Montana in litigation. That\u2019s just in Montana alone. That\u2019s enough to build nearly 25,000 homes. The Biden-Harris EPA\u2026You know what we call the EPA out in Montana? \u2018The employment prevention agency.\u2019\n\n\u201cThey\u2019ve launched a war on Montana\u2019s Colstrip. They\u2019ve launched a war with EV mandates. This is the biggest war on made-in-American energy we\u2019ve seen, certainly in my lifetime. So the American people must reverse this course seven weeks from today, 49 days away. We\u2019ll have an election, and we\u2019ve got to let the American people speak loud and clear they want to change the direction of this country and remove Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from office.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2024/09/17/daines-biden-harris-energy-policies-destroying-our-montana-way-of-life/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8154059760272503, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}