Senator Daines had a very busy month introducing bills to protect Montana workers, businesses, and energy production.Senator Daines introduced legislation to ban vaccine mandates for essential workers crossing the border. The “Continuing Safe Essential Travel Across our Border Act” would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from requiring an essential critical infrastructure worker to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition to engage in essential travel from the U.S. into Mexico or Canada or into the U.S. from those countries. Read more here.

“It’s time we put an end to Biden’s big government mandates that are unnecessarily straining our truck drivers, jobs and the economy.”– Sen. Daines
Senator Daines didn’t stop there. He also wrote a letter calling on the Biden administration to immediately reauthorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Daines has been leading the fight in the U.S. Senate to support made in America energy, especially the Keystone XL pipeline. In the letter, he called specifically for the passage of his “SMART Energy Act”. Read more here.

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Senator Daines also continued to prove he is putting the people of Montana ahead of the interests of politicians and DC insiders by introducing a bipartisan bill to ban Members of Congress and their spouses from owning and trading individual stocks.

“Congress is here to serve, not be served. The American people should have faith in that fact. I’m glad to work across the aisle with Senator Warren on a bipartisan compromise to help restore the American people’s faith in Congress and hold Members accountable to the folks they’re serving.”– Sen. Daines