Thursday, April 23, 2015

Campaign Finance/ State Budget/ Eastern Montana Crime Lab/ Recognition of Indian Tribes/ Poland and the Holocaust

Missoulian: Gov. Bullock signs campaign finance bill into law
SB 289: Revise campaign finance laws
Governor Steve Bullock Signs Montana Disclose Act Into Law
“Governor Steve Bullock today signed the Montana Disclose Act into law. This law requires that any group, regardless of their tax status, that spends money or resources to influence an election within 60 days of when voting begins, must disclose how they are spending that money and the source of the money. At the bill signing, Bullock was joined by Sen. Duane Ankney (R-Colstrip) who sponsored the bill and Representative Frank Garner (R-Kalispell) who carried the bill in the House”



Missoulian: Lawmaker tells administration: Pull back Indian tribe rules
Bipartisan Congressional Leaders Urge Interior to Refrain on Tribal Status Modifications
“House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs Don Young (R-AK), along with Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), and Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-CT) sent a letter today to Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, requesting that the Department refrain from issuing a final rule on tribal acknowledgement regulations as set forth in 25 C.F.R. Part 83, cautioning that the proposed rule poses a range of “unintended and unjustifiable” consequences.”


Missoulian: Poland accepts FBI boss' regrets with reserve
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Annual Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn’t do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That’s what people do. And that should truly frighten us.”

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