{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/10/07/daines-urges-overturn-of-biden-anti-coal-rule-to-unleash-montana-energy/", "Daines Urges Overturn of Biden Anti-Coal Rule to Unleash Montana Energy", "2025-10-07", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "U.S. SENATE \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate urging his colleagues to vote for his pro-mining legislation that would remove a harmful Biden-era rule that restricts coal mining in Eastern Montana.\n\nWatch Daines\u2019 remarks HERE.\n\nRead Daines\u2019 remarks as prepared for delivery below.\n\nMr/Mdm. President, today the Senate will vote to proceed to my joint resolution to congressionally disapprove and officially roll back President Biden\u2019s anti-coal rule in Montana.\n\nH.J.Res.104 is supported by the entire Montana delegation.\n\nI want to thank Congressmen Downing and Zinke for leading this resolution in the House and Senator Sheehy for joining me in the Senate.\n\nThe Resolution is also supported by many, many Montanans, including:\n\nGovernor Gianforte\n\nThe Mayor of Colstrip\n\nMontana Coal Council\n\nMontana Electric Cooperatives\n\nNorthwestern Energy\n\nLocal Counties\n\nBoth of the affected coal mines\n\nAnd many more.\n\nI want to explain quickly what we are doing today.\n\nToday we will take the first step in overturning the Miles City Resource Management Plan Amendment that prohibits new coal leasing in Eastern Montana.\n\nI want to be clear, this resolution only overturns the anti-coal amendment issued by the Biden Administration in the final days of his term.\n\nNo action taken today affects the underlying Miles City Resource Management Plan or how the BLM manages recreation, conservation, and other energy development in the state.\n\nFuture coal development will be managed under the existing RMP as it had for years before Biden added his amendment.\n\nNow why is this important for Montana?\n\nThe Biden amendment prohibits all new coal leasing in eastern Montana.\n\nEastern Montana and Wyoming are home to the Powder River Basin \u2013 the largest coal reserves in the United States.\n\nThe Biden Administration prohibited new coal development in the America\u2019s largest coal reserve.\n\nBLM\u2019s resource management plans are meant to be a bipartisan process, taking in feedback from folks on the ground and implementing the multiple use mission of the BLM.\n\nThe Biden administration took this process and flipped it on its face, disregarding Montana voices.\n\nWe are going to right that wrong now.\n\nWe are going to give Montana a voice in the process.\n\nOverturning this partisan rule will grow Montana energy jobs and help our rural communities.\n\nAccording to the Montana Coal Council, coal supports over 890 high paying jobs in Montana and has provided $2.7 billion in federal, state, private, and tribal royalties.\n\nAnd in a letter from the Governor, he states the Biden RMPA, \u201camounts to a loss of $4.32 billion in future revenue to State trust land beneficiaries, which include K-12 public education.\u201d\n\nI urge my colleague to support Montana jobs and communities and vote yes on today\u2019s motion.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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/2025/10/07/daines-urges-overturn-of-biden-anti-coal-rule-to-unleash-montana-energy/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8821009434759617, "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"}