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Sheehy Introduces Bill to Restore Efficiency and Accountability in the Federal Government
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 20, 2025 Sheehy Introduces Bill to Restore Efficiency and Accountability in the Federal Government U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy (R – Mont.) today introduced the Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation (MERIT) Act to reform and modernize the federal workforce by emphasizing merit-based hiring and retention while aligning dismissal processes with private-sector standards. “It’s well past time for the federal government to stop operating like a runaway train to nowhere and hold itself to the same standards that millions of hardworking Americans in the private sector hold themselves to every day. This legislation is an important step toward bringing an
Senator Sheehy Joins Majority Leader Thune’s Effort to Permanently Repeal the Death Tax
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13, 2025 Senator Sheehy Joins Majority Leader Thune’s Effort to Permanently Repeal the Death Tax U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy (R – Mont.) today joined U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R – S.D.) in reintroducing legislation that would permanently repeal the federal estate tax, commonly known as the death tax. The Death Tax Repeal Act would end this purely punitive tax that can hit family-run farms, ranches, and businesses as the result of the owner’s death. “Especially in Montana, the death tax most acutely punishes hardworking families in agriculture by threatening to put their operations out of business after the
Sheehy, Padilla Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Create National Wildland Firefighting Service
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 6, 2025 Sheehy, Padilla Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Create National Wildland Firefighting Service U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senators Tim Sheehy (R – Mont.) and Alex Padilla (D – Calif.) today introduced the Fit for Purpose Wildfire Readiness Act to dramatically reform and streamline the American wildland firefighting apparatus. Under the current system, wildland fire response is divided across multiple agencies with no clear lines of responsibility or authority. This bill would change that by requiring the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to consolidate wildland firefighting services under a new “National Wildland Firefighting Service.” “For too long, layers of senseless bureaucracy and red
CNN: Montana elected a firefighter to the Senate. He’s already pushing for solutions
Zachary B. Wolf Jan 10, 2025 CNN — With wildfires fires ravaging Los Angeles, the firefighter-turned-senator from Montana wants to fight bureaucracy. Less than a week into his new job, Montana Republican Tim Sheehy is finding plenty of use for his previous experience as an aerial firefighter and wildfire entrepreneur as he pushes for new legislation to address the new reality of a fire season that never ends. Reset your view of wildfires “There’s a huge dichotomy in America between structural firefighting — the red fire truck, traditional firemen everyone’s familiar with — and wildland firefighting,” Sheehy told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday, adding that the country
Trump will prioritize ‘communities’ over leftist environmental policy: Tim Sheehy
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AXIOS: Freshman wishlist: Tim Sheehy to fight fires from the Senate
Stef W. Knight Jan 8, 2025 Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) is fresh off his victory over one of the last red-state Democrats and has his next target: fixing how the federal government fights wildfires. Why it matters: Sheehy, who has worked fighting wildfires, told Axios that he is focused on passing reforms to the system as his first move in the Senate — as fires ravage Los Angeles County. “Our ability to respond to wildfires — which was my job, I’m a water bomber pilot — is fundamentally broken,” Sheehy said, saying it is one of several problems caused by “bureaucracy run amok.” The senator said