Member of Congress · 119th Congress
Steve Daines
Steve Daines is a Republican U.S. senator from Montana, in Congress since 2013, who voted with most Republicans on 100% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 8 bills become law since 2013.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn the Nomination — Nomination voteSep 30, 2026 · Nomination Confirmed
- YeaOn the Cloture Motion — Nomination voteSep 30, 2026 · Cloture Motion Agreed to
- YeaOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
- YeaOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Stop Insider Trading ActSep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
- NayOn the Motion to Discharge — A resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.Sep 29, 2026 · Motion to Discharge Rejected
5 most recent bills
- S. 240 Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025Oct 15, 2026 · Became Public Law No: 119-122.
- S. 5616 ADAPT ActSep 30, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- S. 239 Crow Revenue ActSep 28, 2026 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 686.
- S. 4041 Cooperative Watershed Management Program Reauthorization Act of 2026Sep 17, 2026 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 656.
- S.Res. 816 A resolution honoring 35 years of independence for the countries of Central Asia and recognizing the importance of the United States growing relationship with…Sep 17, 2026 · Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4790)
Top bills sponsored
- S. 490 (115th) A bill to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project involving the Gibson Dam.Became law
- S. 490 (116th) B-47 Ridge Designation ActBecame law
- S. 117 (115th) Alex Diekmann Peak Designation Act of 2017Became law
- S. 1020 (119th) A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain…Became law
- S. 900 (116th) A bill to designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bozeman, Montana, as the "Travis W. Atkins Department of…Became law
- S. 1282 (115th) A bill to redesignate certain clinics of the Department of Veterans Affairs located in Montana.Became law
- S. 3285 (118th) A bill to rename the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Butte, Montana, as the "Charlie Dowd VA Clinic".Became law
- H.R. 1963 (113th) Bureau of Reclamation Conduit Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs ActPassed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesSubcommittee on National Parks, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, Subcommittee on Water and Power
- Senate Committee on FinanceSubcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Health Care, Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness
- Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsSubcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism
- Senate Committee on Indian AffairsNo subcommittees
Elections Sen. Daines has won
Sen. Daines has won 1 U.S. House election (2012–2012) and 2 U.S. Senate elections (2014, 2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 10.0 to 17.7 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has Montana done while Sen. Daines served?
2015 to 2024 in Montana: typical household income was up 15% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 4.4 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.6 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Montana during Daines’s time representing it (2015 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
Montana’s borders do not change, so every year is comparable. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Local offices
Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.
- Billings office222 N. 32nd St., Suite 100, Billings, MT 59101
Phone 406-245-6822 · Fax 406-245-1607 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Great Falls office104 4th Street North, Suite 302, Great Falls, MT 59401
Phone 406-453-0148 · Fax 406-453-5379 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Helena office30 W. 14th St., Suite 206, Helena, MT 59601
Phone 406-443-3189 · Fax 406-443-3306 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Missoula office218 E. Front St., Suite 103, Missoula, MT 59802
Phone 406-549-8198 · Fax 406-549-0905 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Sidney office609 S. Central Ave., Suite #4, Central Plaza Building, Sidney, MT 59270
Phone 406-482-9010 · Fax 406-482-9059 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Bozeman office1450 Twin Lakes Avenue, Suite 201A, Bozeman, MT 59718
Phone 406-587-3446 · Fax 406-219-2354 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Kalispell office121 Financial Drive, Suite 127, Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone 406-257-3765 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries D000618-billings, D000618-great_falls, D000618-helena, D000618-missoula, D000618-sidney, D000618-bozeman, D000618-kalispell (7 offices)
- Published at
- https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
- File date
- September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, www.daines.senate.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 66 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 66 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
| With a Congress.gov note | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 25, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Votes on civilian nominations
237 confirmation roll calls this senator was on the roll for, 119th Congress. A tally of what the record shows, not a score.
- Yea · September 30, 2026 · Keith Sonderling Secretary of Labor
- Not voting · September 23, 2026 · Angela Veronica Colmenero United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
- Yea · September 17, 2026 · Kasdin Miller Mitchell United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas
- Yea · September 15, 2026 · Matthew R. Byrne United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
- Yea · August 8, 2026 · Todd Blanche Attorney General
- Yea · August 7, 2026 · Michael Kavoukjian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway
- Yea · August 5, 2026 · Erica Schwartz Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Yea · July 28, 2026 · Walter Clayton Director of National Intelligence
Evidence
- What is counted
- Senate roll calls in the 119th Congress on the question of confirming a civilian nomination, as recorded on senate.gov. Cloture and procedural votes are not counted.
- How it is matched
- The vote record names the nomination number; the senator is matched by the Senate member id.
- Not voting
- Includes absences and any other reason. The record does not say why.
589 of the 617 confirmed civilian nominations show a roll-call vote on their latest-action line; the rest show a voice vote, unanimous consent or another method, with no individual votes. So this is only the roll-call subset. It says nothing about whether any vote was right or wrong.
Data as of Oct 25, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded Senate vote Sep 30, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.