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The U.S. Senate delivered a bipartisan rebuke of President Donald Trump’s trade policies Wednesday by an 88-11 vote in support of congressional authority over decisions to impose tariffs for national security reasons. GOP Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania led efforts to instruct conferees on an unrelated $147 billion spending bill for Veterans Affairs, Energy, the Army C

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester was in Billings Thursday for a meeting with agriculture and transportation leaders. Q2 reports farm and ranch leaders told Tester– the only farmer in the U.S. Senate– their markets are down and the uncertainty of the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs will continue to put pressure on their industries...

Spending records will likely be broken in Montana’s U.S. Senate race this year.

CNN reports that after White House physician Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, withdrew his nomination, the President targeted Montana Sen. Jon Tester as the cause of his failed nomination...

MTN News reports that witnesses for the Montana Democratic Party presented evidence Tuesday, asking a judge to disqualify certain signatures for the Green Party on the 2018 state ballot. Green Party members say they believe the signatures are legitimate...

Montana Senator Steve Daines introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that addresses the reopening of public lands that had been locked up for over 35 years as Wilderness Study Areas.

The proposed tax cut law being debated in the U.S. Senate could cause problems for university students and large donors.

Veteran's Heartbeat is a weekly half hour talk show devoted to issues of hope, health, opportunity and well-being of veterans.

In a U.S. Senate Committee hearing on Thursday morning, Montana Senator Steve Daines mourned the deaths of two wildland firefighters in the Missoula area in the last two weeks.

Dr. and Montana State Senator Albert Olszewski of Whitefish was recently chosen to be Montana's project leader to improve delivery of rural healthcare at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Symposium on Rural Healthcare Challenges in Denver.