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Troy Downing: “I've got 80 plus bills that I've co-sponsored.”

Featuring: Troy Downing, Republican | U.S. House Montana, 2nd Congressional District

Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing

Published June 19, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:36

And I'm the only Rocky Mountain representative on that. So I'm pretty excited about that. And I want to just keep showing up doing the work. I've got 80 plus bills that I've co-sponsored. co sponsored. I've got probably close to a dozen that I've introduced myself, plus or minus doing serious policy work and hopefully earn a gavel at some point point and start working towards leadership. (22:36–22:39)

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“To a Montanan, an average Montana, that would be about a 26% increase in their income taxes.”
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“To a small business Montana, it's higher. It's about a 43% increase.”
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“80, 90% of their income is Medicare and Medicaid.”
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“The Iranians were close to being able to produce up to 10 nuclear weapons.”
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“If the Tax Cuts and Jobs act, that was the 2017 policy. If that doesn't get renewed, it expires this year.”
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“Our public lands are not for sale.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 02:30-02:33
“Medicaid is incredibly important to Montana, and very specifically, it's very important to rural health care.”
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“It's not taking benefits away from people who are entitled to them.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 03:50-03:54
“The Sentinel Program is incredibly important.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 05:00-05:03
“Planet Earth cannot afford to have nuclear weapons in Iran.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 07:11-07:17
“We were basically being invaded from the southern border.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 09:51-09:54
“We had bad actors from potentially hostile countries that were coming in and disappearing into the population.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 09:57-10:03
“A lot of our farmers and ranchers depend on those [work visa] programs.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 10:45-10:45
“I've got a number of bills in there to help with coal powered fire plants, with being able to mine coal on federal land.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 12:10-12:17
“One of the biggest contributors to the success of a family in building the American dream is reliable and affordable energy.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 12:23-12:31
“We don't have the ability to transmit [energy] either.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 13:21-13:21
“There are adversarial countries out there that are trying to basically blow us out of the water.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 14:13-14:19
“I do have a bill out there to deal with some of these issues and we're hoping to get that through.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 15:13-15:19
“We put money in there for the St. Mary's siphon and making sure we're dealing with that.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 15:28-15:33
“We haven't dealt with the maintenance in a lot of these critical systems and infrastructure, especially in water infrastructure.”
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“We have been as accessible as we possibly can. And we do tele town halls.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 19:59-20:08
“I got onto financial services and dealing with a lot of stuff that I have background in and dealt with in my previous job as the Montana…”
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“I'm the only Rocky Mountain representative on financial services, which is everything, banking, securities, like I said, the digital assets…”
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“I've got probably close to a dozen that I've introduced myself.”
Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing | Uploaded June 19, 2025 | 22:38-22:43
“Markup in Financial services on our stablecoin act and it took 14 hours to get that through committee.”
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“A lot of the policy that we're doing on, you know, the regulatory framework we're doing for digital assets, on what I've been doing for…”
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