Oro y plata
Gold and silver
Allied Defense Sales Act
The bill aims to boost allied interoperability and U.S. defense exports by streamlining multinational procurement, but does so with increased export‑control, cost, and procurement‑flexibility risks and implementation uncertainty.
Northern Montana Water Security Act of 2025
The bill secures and finances major tribal water rights, land-in-trust transfers, and water infrastructure investments that improve tribal water security, public health, and local economies, but does so with substantial federal spending and conditions (waivers, administrative oversight, funding uncertainty, and limits on some tribal economic options) that shift risks and constrain certain future claims or uses.
Public Lands in Public Hands Act
The bill protects public access and prevents privatization of publicly accessible federal tracts—benefiting recreation and community access—but it reduces flexibility for land conveyances, may slow transfers and infrastructure projects, imposes administrative burdens, and can exclude users who rely on informal access.
Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act of 2025
The bill expands federal funding, technical assistance, mapping, and coordination to protect wildlife movement corridors—benefiting States, Tribes, rural communities, and biodiversity—while constraining some federal leverage over land‑use changes, increasing taxpayer obligations and administrative burdens, and creating tradeoffs in funding focus and privacy for landowners.
Fill the Lake Act
The bill improves summer predictability of Flathead Lake to benefit recreation, local economies, and shoreline infrastructure, at the cost of reduced reservoir flexibility, potential downstream water and power impacts in other seasons, and higher federal implementation burdens.
SROS Act
This bill offers targeted tax breaks to attract experienced retired military and law enforcement into school resource officer roles—boosting recruitment and SRO income security—while reducing federal revenue and adding administrative and equity challenges for governments and other public employees.
FIR Act
The bill trades program-level environmental oversight and broader protections for clearer, faster decision-making and cost savings for land managers and taxpayers, increasing ecological risk and shifting conservation burdens and permitting uncertainty onto projects, local governments, and the public.
Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement And Tourism Act
The bill permanently protects important Montana rivers, safeguarding clean water, recreation, tribal rights, and existing hydropower operations while trading off some private development flexibility, limiting certain hydropower expansion, and adding federal management and implementation costs.
COVID–19 Military Backpay Act of 2025
The bill restores pay and retirement benefits to service members discharged over COVID‑19 vaccine noncompliance, benefiting affected servicemembers and reservists but creating significant taxpayer costs, increased litigation exposure for DoD, and administrative burdens to implement.
Greater Yellowstone Recreation Enhancement And Tourism Act
The bill protects multiple Montana river segments—supporting recreation, water quality, tribal uses, and near-term hydropower reliability—while imposing federal protections that can restrict development, increase permitting costs, and shift management authority away from some local stakeholders.