Rep. Wylie Galt (R-Squashem) amended SB169 to make sure college ID won’t, by itself, allow a student to vote: “If you’re a college student in Montana and you don’t have a registration or a bank statement or a W-2, it makes me kind of wonder why you’re voting in this election anyway.”

It looks like four wolf-depredation bills are likely headed for the governor’s desk. This after Gianforte got his wrist slapped for illegally trapping and killing a collared wolf.

Sen. Keith Regier (R-Flatulence) succeeded in carrying SB140, enabling the governor to directly appoint interim judges.

Rep. Rhonda Knudsen amended Sen. Greg Hertz’s SB152 to more than double the tax cut percentage.  She said it was to help the little people.

Sen. Carl Glimm (R-Killem) is carrying SB215 as a cover letter to discriminate against our LGBTQ+ relatives, friends, and neighbors.

Our benighted congressman, Sir Matt, put forth an op-ed about the dangers of HR-1. If you can’t connect to the link, check out this from his own website.

“Senator” Steve Daines iterates hollow platitudes regarding the nomination of Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior.

This GOP bill is still alive … it would exempt religious organizations from reporting any political expenditures to the state Commissioner of Political Practices.