{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/12/12/icymi-daily-caller-exclusive-gop-montana-lawmakers-celebrate-as-trump-demolishes-biden-era-assault-on-their-resources/", "ICYMI: Daily Caller EXCLUSIVE: GOP Montana Lawmakers Celebrate As Trump Demolishes Biden-Era Assault On Their Resources", "2025-12-12", "2025", "2025-12", "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 yesterday announced that President Trump signed his bill overturning Biden\u2019s anti-coal Miles City Resource Management Plan Amendment. Read highlights from the story below.\n\nEXCLUSIVE: GOP Montana Lawmakers Celebrate As Trump Demolishes Biden-Era Assault On Their Resources\n\nDaily Caller\n\nAudrey Streb\n\nDecember 11th, 2025\n\nPresident Donald Trump signed Montana lawmakers\u2019 bill to unleash mining in the state on Thursday, demolishing a Biden-era plan that held the coal-rich region hostage.\n\nSponsored by Montana Republican Reps. Troy Downing and Ryan Zinke as well as Republican Montana Sens. Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy, the resolution nixes the Biden-era Miles City Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA), which blocked coal development across almost two million acres in Montana and shut down future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin. More than 40% of America\u2019s coal came from the Powder River Basin in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, though the Biden administration effectively blocked future coal leasing in the key region following a legal battle with local green groups.\n\nDaines\u2019 office told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the resolution has garnered widespread support, including from Republican Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte.\n\n\u201cToday marks a massive win for both Montana and the nation. Biden\u2019s disastrous Miles City RMPA was an anti-coal rule that would\u2019ve blocked future coal leasing on two million acres of land, stifled job growth and caused the loss of over $4.3 billion in future revenue to our state,\u201d Daines told the DCNF. \u201cBut now, thanks to the hard work of our Montana delegation, Biden\u2019s rule is repealed and Montana energy is back. Thank you President Trump for fighting for Made-In-Montana energy and for protecting America\u2019s energy dominance.\u201d\n\nRead the full article in the Daily Caller HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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/2025/12/12/icymi-daily-caller-exclusive-gop-montana-lawmakers-celebrate-as-trump-demolishes-biden-era-assault-on-their-resources/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.280635129660368, "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"}