![Photo of Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]](/data/photos/412549-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2016 Report Card for Daines.
Sponsorship Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Daines has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the Senate. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Daines is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
Committee Membership
Steve Daines sits on the following committees:
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Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Chair, Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade
- Member, Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing, and Agriculture Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy
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Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Chair, Subcommittee on National Parks
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy
- Member, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
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Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
- Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
- Member, Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Daines sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Public Lands and Natural Resources (22%) Government Operations and Politics (20%) Armed Forces and National Security (15%) Energy (12%) Taxation (10%) Economics and Public Finance (8%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (7%) Water Resources Development (7%)
Recent Bills
Some of Daines’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S.Res. 199: A resolution designating June 2017 as “Great Outdoors Month”.
- S.J.Res. 46: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
- S. 1268: Child Protection and Family Support Act of 2017
- S. 1282: A bill to redesignate certain clinics of the Department of Veterans Affairs located ...
- S. 1164: Stop Online Booking Scams Act of 2017
- S. 1097: Armed Forces Reserve and National Guard Dual-Status Review and Modernization Act
- S. 1031: Crowdfunding Enhancement Act
Voting Record
Key Votes
| Daines’s Vote | Vote Description |
|---|---|
| Yea |
H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017
Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26.
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| Nay |
S. 1177: Every Child Achieves Act of 2015
Dec 9, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 85/12.
The Every Child Achieves Act is a bipartisan educational policy reform bill that would expand state responsibility over schools, provide grants to charter schools, and reduce the federal test-based accountability system of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The bill was referred to the ... |
| Yea |
H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act
Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16.
H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ... |
| Nay |
S. 754: Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015
Oct 27, 2015. Bill Passed 74/21.
After years of delay and false starts, Congress may finally be on the verge of passing a bill to address Internet data breaches and cybersecurity. The Senate is once again debating the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754), or CISA, and it appears to have ... |
| Nay |
S. 1177: Every Child Achieves Act of 2015
Jul 16, 2015. Bill Passed 81/17.
The Every Child Achieves Act is a bipartisan educational policy reform bill that would expand state responsibility over schools, provide grants to charter schools, and reduce the federal test-based accountability system of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The bill was referred to the ... |
| Yea |
H.R. 83 (113th): Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015
Dec 11, 2014. Passed 219/206.
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December 11, 2014 and by the Senate on December 13, 2014. The bill was originally introduced on January 3, 2013 by ... |
| Aye |
H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015
Sep 17, 2014. Passed 319/108.
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| Nay |
H.R. 3361 (113th): USA FREEDOM Act
May 22, 2014. Passed 303/121.
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| Nay |
H.R. 3547 (113th): Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014
Jan 15, 2014. Passed 359/67.
This is the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014, the bill that set the federal budget for fiscal year 2014. The bill began as the Space Launch Liability Indemnification Extension Act but was used as the vehicle for the passage of the budget deal. On January ... |
| Nay |
H.R. 41 (113th): Hurricane Sandy relief bill
Jan 4, 2013. Passed 354/67.
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Missed Votes
From Jan 2015 to Jun 2017, Daines missed 0 of 655 roll call votes, which is 0.0%. This is better than the median of 1.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- Congress-Legislators, a community project collecting election information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills