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

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

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