May 2022

Monday, May 30

12:00 p.m.
Spoke at Yellowstone National Cemetery Memorial Day Event in Laurel

Friday, May 27

6:40 a.m.
Press Interview

7:15 a.m.
Press Interview

7:45 am
Press Interview

8:15 a.m.
Met with Robyn Driscoll in Billings

10:00 a.m.
Hosted PACT Act Press Event

12:00 p.m.
Met with Ron Slinger, President of Miles City Community College
and Trustees

1:00 p.m.
Toured Miles City Community College Agriculture Advancement Center

2:00 p.m.
Met with John Laney, Executive Director of Miles City Chamber of
Commerce

3:00 p.m.
Met with Hannah Nash and Custer County Democrats in Miles City

Thursday, May 26th

9:30 a.m.
Met with Susan & John Cunningham and Emma Giron from Missoula

10:00 a.m.
Attended Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

11:30 a.m.
Senate Floor Session

12:15 p.m.
Press Interview with Senator Moran

1:30 p.m.
Gave Senate floor speech in support of the Robinson (PACT) Act

1:45 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Wednesday, May 25

9:45 a.m.
Met with students from Dodson High School

10:00 a.m.
Attended Commerce Committee Executive Session

11:00 a.m.
Met with representatives from Honeywell Aerospace

11:15 a.m.
Senate Floor Session

11:30 a.m.
Met with students from Gallatin Gateway School

12:15 p.m.
Met with representatives from Cerner

12:45 p.m.
Attended Chairs Lunch

2:00 p.m.
Press Interview

2:30 p.m.
Attended Banking Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation & Community Development hearing

2:35 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

3:00 p.m.
Gave remarks at Energy & Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water & Power hearing

4:00 p.m.
Gave Senate floor speech on Shereef M. Elnahal to be Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs

4:30 p.m.
Met virtually with representatives from Montana Technological University

5:00 p.m.
Press Interview

5:30 p.m.
Press Interview

6:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Tuesday, May 24

4:30 p.m.
Met with Representatives from the Federal Home Bank of Des Moines

5:00 p.m.
Gave remarks at the Aerospace Industries Association Board of
Governors Reception

5:15 p.m.
Met with Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf

6:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Monday, May 23

6:30 a.m.
Press Interview

07:15 a.m.
Press Interview

7:50 a.m.
Press Interview

8:30 a.m.
Met with representatives from the McLaughlin Research Institute

11:00 a.m.
Attended Press Event at Alluvion Health in Great Falls

12:15 p.m.
Met with representatives from the Great Falls Chamber of Commerce

Friday, May 20

11:00 a.m.
Spoke at 100th Anniversary of Fort Harrison Veterans Hospital in Helena

2:00 p.m.
Attended CSKT Tribal Leadership Pow Wow at the National Bison Range

4:00 p.m.
Attended Tribal Listening Session at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell

Thursday, May 19

10:00 a.m.
Chaired Banking Committee Nominations (hybrid) hearing

11:30 a.m.
Senate Floor Session

11:30 a.m.
Press Interview

12:15 p.m.
Press Interview

1:45 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Wednesday, May 18

9:20 a.m.
Press Interview

10:00 a.m.
Attended Banking Committee (hybrid) hearing

10:30 a.m.
Attended Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

11:30 a.m.
Met with representatives of the City of Kalispell: Mayor Mark Johnson, Councilmember Sam Nunnally, Councilmember Kari Gabriel, City Manager Doug Russell, Director of Development Services Jarod Nygren, Flathead County Commissioner Brad Abell, Kalispell Chamber of Commerce Courtney Sprunger & Erica Wirtala

11:45 a.m.
Senate Floor Session

12:00 p.m.
Met with representatives from The Wounded Blue, Ladd and Heidi Paulson

12:45 p.m.
Attended Democratic Caucus lunch

2:45 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

3:00 p.m.
Attended Indian Affairs Committee business meeting

3:30 p.m.
Press Interview

3:45 p.m.
Attended Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

5:10 p.m.
Press Interview

5:30 p.m.
Met with Toby Rice, CEO, EQT

6:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

6:30 p.m.
Spoke at Schneider National, Inc. Transportation Policy Symposium Legislative Listening Session

Tuesday, May 17

10:00 a.m.
Attended Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

12:15 p.m.
Met virtually with Roselyn Tso, nominee to be Director of the Indian Health Service

1:30 p.m.
Met with Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough

2:30 pm
Appropriations Committee official photo

2:45 p.m.
Met with Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday, and Commandant of the Marine Corps General David Berger

4:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

5:30 p.m.
Press Interview

Monday, May 16

5:30 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Thursday, May 12

8:00 a.m.
Breakfast with Senator Steve Daines

11:00 a.m.
Met with Montana Highway Patrol Officer Amanda Villa and Brad Villa

11:45 a.m.
Press Interview

12:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

12:30 p.m.
Met virtually with representatives from E-Space

1:00 p.m.
Spoke at USICA-COMPETES Conference Committee meeting

1:15 p.m.
Phone call with Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Joshua Osborne, Deputy Director Congressional Budget & Appropriations Liaison

1:45 p.m.
Press Interview

2:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Wednesday, May 11

8:00 a.m.
Met with representatives from the Fort Belknap Indian County Tribal Council

9:00 a.m.
Phone call with Defense Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks

9:30 a.m.
Met with Michael Barr, nominee to be Vice Chair for Supervision, Federal Reserve
System, and Kirk Schwarzbach

10:00 a.m.
Attended Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations
Subcommittee hearing

11:00 a.m.
Senate Floor Session

11:40 a.m.
Press Interview

12:45 p.m.
Met with U.S. Senate Committee Chairs

2:00 p.m.
Attended Bozeman Public Library virtual event

2:30 p.m.
Met with members of the PhRMA Board of Directors

2:45 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

3:00 p.m.
Attended Veterans Affairs Committee hearing

5:15 p.m.
Met with Katy Wright, MT Federation of Public Employees “Teacher
of the Year”, and Scot Pargot

6:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Tuesday, May 10

8:00 a.m.
Met with Senator Bennet

9:45 a.m.
Attended Banking Committee hearing

10:00 a.m.
Attended Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

10:30 a.m.
Attended Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

11:45 a.m.
Senate Floor Session

12:15 p.m.
Met with General John Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, Air Force, and Shawn Barnes, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Budget and Appropriations Liaison

12:45 p.m.
Democratic Caucus

1:30 p.m.
Met with Senator Moran

2:30 p.m.
Met with representatives from California Dairies

3:00 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

3:30 p.m.
Met with Veterans Affairs Committee Democrats

4:00 p.m.
Met with Lieutenant General Jody J. Daniels, Chief of Army Reserve, Colonel Curtis Owens, USAR Director of Legislative Affairs, and Major Mike Leeman, Congressional Liaison

5:00 p.m.
Hosted Virtual Town Hall

6:00 p.m.
Press Interview

6:30 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Monday, May 9

4:15 p.m.
Phone call with EPA Administrator Michael Regan

05:30 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Thursday, May 5

09:00 a.m.
Met with Joe Esposito, Senior Vice President of Network Planning, Delta Airlines

10:00 a.m.
Met with Kathy Wardman, President & CEO, Northrop Grumman

10:00 a.m.
Attended Banking Committee hearing

11:30 a.m.
Met with Curtis LeGeyt, new President, National Association of Broadcasters

12:15 p.m.
Press Interview

01:00 p.m.
Press Interview

01:30 p.m.
Met with Steve Dettelbach, nominee to be Director of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Joe Gaeta, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General

1:45 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

Wednesday, May 4

09:10 a.m.
Press Interview

09:30 a.m.
Met with Lance Trebesch, CEO, Eventgroove

09:45 a.m.
Met with students from Sheridan High School & Carter County High School

10:00 a.m.
Attended Energy & Water Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

10:30 a.m.
Attended Interior Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

11:00 a.m.
Attended Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

11:30 a.m
Met with representatives from the Montana AFL-CIO

12:00 p.m.
Met with Dawn Githens, Kayla Githens, Kristy Cancro, Ava Cancro & Alexandra McCollum from Billings

12:15 p.m.
Met with representatives from the Missoula Organization of Realtors

12:45 p.m.
Met with U.S. Senate Committee Chairs

02:00 p.m.
Met virtually with Alice Waters

02:30 p.m.
Met with representatives from Montanans for Healthy Rivers

2:30 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

02:40 p.m.
Attended Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection hearing

02:50 p.m.
Attended Indian Affairs Committee Oversight hearing

03:00 p.m.
Met virtually with Brandon Judd & Andy Quinn

3:10 p.m.
Attended Veterans’ Affairs Committee business meeting

03:30 p.m.
Met with students from Anderson Middle School

03:45 p.m.
Military Construction, Veterans’ Affairs, and Related Agencies appropriations hearing

04:00 p.m.
Attended Banking Committee business meeting

05:00 p.m.
Met with representatives from Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

05:30 p.m.
Met with representatives from the Veterans of Foreign Wars

Tuesday, May 3

09:00 a.m.
Met with students from Sentinel High School with Montana World Affairs Council

10:00 a.m.
Attended Commerce Committee hearing

10:15 a.m.
Attended Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing

11:45 a.m.
Senate Floor Session

12:15 p.m.
Met with representatives from the Montana Electric Cooperatives’ Association

12:45 p.m.
Democratic Caucus

02:15 p.m.
Met with representatives from the Independent Community Bankers of America

2:30 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

02:40 p.m.
Met virtually with Sidney High School Applied Government Class

03:30 p.m.
Attended Veterans Affairs Committee hearing

4:55 p.m.
Senate Floor Session

05:45 p.m.
Met with representatives from the Montana Association of REALTORS

6:15 p.m.
Phone call with Waded Cruzado, President, Montana State University

Monday, May 2

5:00 p.m.
Phone call with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

5:30 p.m.
Phone call with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley

05:30 p.m.
Senate Floor Session