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The Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate proceeded to executive session to consider the nomination of Robert M. Gates as secretary of the De…

Senator Conrad Burns (R-Montana) and his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, met for their last debate. The telecast included campaign commercials. The debate, sponsored by the Great Fall…

Senator Conrad Burns and his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, met for a debate sponsored by the Helena Independent Record and Hometown Helena. The debate was held in a meeting room at the …

Candidates participated in a televised debate moderated by state journalists. Among the topics they addressed were law enforcement provisions of the Patriot Act, policy in Iraq, ethics in po…

Mike Mansfield, former congressman and senator from Montana, was honored. Author Donald Oberdorfer spoke about his biography, Senator Mansfield: The Extraordinary Life of a Great American St…

Sen. Conrad Burns and his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, met for a debate sponsored by The Montana Standard held in the Mother Lode Theater in uptown Butte, Montana.

The Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumed consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 5631, the Department of Defense Approp…

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Sen. Conrad Burns and his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, met for a debate at the Hamilton High School’s Performing Arts Center. It was a raucous event punctuated by heckling from a livel…

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee holds a hearing to consider the nomination of Mary Peters to be secretary of transportation. Ms. Peters served as administrator of t…

Witnesses testified about programs to provide essential air services to small communities and efforts by the airline industry to cut costs by eliminating routes to areas that did not generat…

The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on the re-nomination of Kevin Martin as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and of John Kneuer to be assistant secretary of commerc…

The Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumed consideration of H.R.4954, the Port Security bill.

The Senate convened and began a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumed consideration of H.R.5631, the Department of Defense FY 2007 Appropriations bill. The Sen…

A hearing, one of a series on communications issues and policy, was held on legislation that would enable broadcasters to block the recording of certain audio and video programs in an effort…

Witnesses testify about protecting children from indecent material on the Internet.

The Senate considered the conference report to accompany H.R. 2361, the Department of the Interior Appropriations bill. Senator Frist made remarks on the floor about his reconsideration o…

Sen. Conrad Burns and his Democratic challenger, Jon Tester, met for their first debate at the Montana Broadcasters Association annual convention held at the Grouse Mountain Lodge in Whitefi…

The committee held the third of three hearings to review the revised substitute version of S. 2686, the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006. Witnesses tal…