Sen. Keith Regier (R-Kludgemuffin) has served his final session. In his eagerly ignored farewell declamation, he said, “Legislation with a biblical foundation will serve Montana well.”

Senate Bill 485 would have bumped legislators’ pay to $24 an hour, hardly a princely sum. But Governor Gianforte labeled the raise “inappropriate and excessive.”

The guv vetoed more bipartisan-backed bills.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-Misguided) is the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. You’d think he was smarter than to endorse Trump.

Sore loser Greg Gianforte acted with uncharacteristic speed to bury this bill.

In Senate Finance and Claims Committee, Sen. Forrest Mandeville (R-Collusion) worked some manipulative magic. He killed HB 276 (already passed by both chambers) that would have set up a $1M grants program to move food from farms to food banks. And he put $1M into HB 5 to benefit his own hometown of Columbus. Pretty good for a day’s scheming.

As a consequence for holding a dead mic over her head, Rep. Zooey Zephyr was banned from the House floor, among other areas.

Following the protest in the House gallery on April 24, GOP leadership called the outburst “a riot by far-left agitators.”