Rain and Fire/ Gluten Free/ Health Law Repeal Vote

Missoulian: Polson wildfire had 'astronomical' potential for disaster

Missoulian: Rain helps firefighters near Arlee, around western Montana

National Weather Service Forecast
Montana InciWeb

Missoulian: FDA defining what "gluten free" means on packages

What is Gluten-Free? FDA Has an Answer

“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that defines what characteristics a food has to have to bear a label that proclaims it "gluten- free." The rule also holds foods labeled "without gluten," "free of gluten," and "no gluten" to the same standard.”

Missoulian: House to vote to repeal health law for 40th time

Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 322. H.R. 2009 — "To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from enforcing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010."

Media Shield Law/ Student Loan Bill/ Transportation Funding/ Timber Harvest/ Stage 1 Fire Restrictions

Missoulian: Senate presses ahead with media shield law
S.987: Free Flow of Information Act of 2013
“Prohibits a federal entity (an entity or employee of the judicial or executive branch or an administrative agency of the federal government with the power to issue a subpoena or other compulsory process), in any proceeding or in connection with any issue arising under federal law, from compelling a covered person to disclose protected information, unless a federal court in the jurisdiction where the compulsory process has been or would be issued determines, after providing notice and an opportunity for the covered person to be heard, that all reasonable alternative sources have been exhausted and that separate specified conditions have been met depending on whether the matter is a criminal investigation or prosecution.”

Missoulian: Bill to lower student loan rates heads to Obama
H.R. 1911: Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013

Missoulian: Transportation funding bill faces GOP opposition
S.1243: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations

Missoulian: Daines makes additions to U.S. House bill to speed timber harvests
H.R.1526: Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act

Missoulian: Forecast puts western Montana firefighters on edge as restrictions take effect
What Fire Restrictions Mean To You

Student Loans/ NSA Surveiliance/ NSA Documents/ Fires

Missoulian: Student loan compromise heads toward final vote
H.R.1911: Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013

Missoulian: Senate panel looking at limits on surveillance
Strengthening Privacy Rights and National Security: Oversight of FISA Surveillance Programs- Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee

Missoulian: NSA phone spying document declassified
Declassified NSA Documents

Missoulian:  Crews take advantage of weather to conduct 'burnout' on fire near Arlee
Missoulian: Crews spending nights on line at wildfire near Philipsburg
Montana InciWeb

Fires/ New FBI Director

Missoulian: Fire near Arlee holds steady as 'extreme' conditions, restrictions arrive
Missoulian: 4 Montana wildfires burn over 36 square miles
Montana InciWeb

Montana Fire Conditions
“Wildfires can affect Montana's landscape, air quality, wildlife, agriculture, tourism, and recreation. Several State of Montana agencies have information regarding the impact and current status of fire listed below….”

Missoulian: Senate approves James Comey as new FBI director
On the Nomination (Confirmation James B. Comey, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Fires/ Child Sex Trafficking/ Military Justice

Missoulian: Gold Pan fire burns 8,865 acres in Bitterroot Forest wilderness
Montana InciWeb

Missoulian: FBI raids rescue 105 kids forced into prostitution
Operation Cross Country: Recovering Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
“Since its creation in 2003, the Innocence Lost National Initiative has resulted in the identification and recovery of more than 2,700 children who have been sexually exploited. Behind those numbers are the stories of real victims.”

Missoulian: Senator targets military law over sexual assault
S.967 : Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013