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Build Homes Montanans Can Actually Afford
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyUse federal incentives, grants, tariff policy, and rural housing tools to increase housing affordability in Montana.
- Help small Montana communities compete for federal housing-permitting grants; targeted tax incentives for affordable/workforce housing; oppose tariffs on building materials; expand and extend incentive-based federal housing reform; explore USDA Rural Development down-payment assistance; address federal debt pressures that raise borrowing costs.
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Targeted tax incentives for affordable and workforce housing development in rural and small-town Montana communities, where builders can't make the math work today
Oppose tariffs on lumber, steel, and other building materials that make every new home cost more. These tariffs undercut the progress Congress just made. It makes no sense to pass big housing reform with one hand and raise the price of every 2x4 with the other.
Healthcare & Reproductive Care
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyProtect health-insurance affordability, rural hospitals, Medicaid expansion, telehealth, rural healthcare workforces, and reproductive decision-making.
- Extend health-insurance affordability tax credits; protect rural hospital funding and improve Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement; defend Medicaid expansion; make telehealth expansion permanent; support rural provider recruitment and loan repayment; protect women's ability to make reproductive healthcare decisions with their doctors.
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Education
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyDirect more federal support toward rural classrooms, teacher recruitment, career training, higher education, and connectivity.
- Federal rural-education funding tied to classroom instruction and teacher pay; expand teacher loan forgiveness in high-need rural schools; invest in trade/vocational programs; strengthen public higher education and apprenticeships; support rural broadband and career/technical education; fully fund rural K-12 and programs such as REAP.
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Fully fund rural K-12 schools and fight for federal rural school support, including programs like REAP, that Montana currently receives too little of relative to its needs.
Education Leadership Record
Candidate’s account of past workFactVote summary · Record / Past ActionDuring his University of Montana tenure, research funding nearly doubled, Accelerate Montana launched, and trade-school and certificate enrollment increased.
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I spent the last eight years as President of the University of Montana trying to give young Montanans a reason to stay and build their futures in our state. During my tenure, I focused on teaching kids how to think, not what to think. We delivered on that promise by nearly doubling research funding, launching partnerships like Accelerate Montana to train thousands in high-demand trades, and driving a 20% surge in trade-school and certificate enrollments. I will carry the lessons I personally learned. I will carry to Washington the lessons I personally learned as an advocate for public higher education that benefits all Montanans."
Invest in trade and vocational programs alongside four-year degrees, so that a welding certificate is treated with the same respect as a diploma.
Public Lands & the Second Amendment
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyKeep public lands in public hands, expand public access, restore land-management capacity, actively manage forests where appropriate, and defend gun rights.
- Oppose sale/transfer of public lands; support high-value land acquisitions for access; protect hunting, fishing, and recreation access; reverse cuts to land-management agencies; support science-based forest management in the wildland-urban interface; defend Second Amendment rights.
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Honoring Tribal Communities & Cultural Heritage
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyHonor treaty and trust obligations and strengthen resources and consultation for Tribal Nations.
- Honor treaty/trust commitments; improve healthcare, infrastructure, and law-enforcement access on tribal lands; require meaningful consultation on land, water, and development decisions; incorporate Indigenous knowledge in public-land management; protect Indian Health Service and tribal health funding.
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Ensure tribal governments are genuinely consulted , not just notified, on decisions affecting their land, water, and people—including energy and resource development proposed near reservation land. Recognize the value of indigenous knowledge in public land management.
Protect the tribal health system and Indian Health Service facilities by fighting that they receive the funding and flexibility they need to serve Indian Country.
Veterans
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyExpand rural VA care, reduce benefit backlogs, strengthen veterans' mental-health services, preserve HUD-VASH, and support veteran employment and entrepreneurship.
- Fully fund rural VA clinics; expand mobile and telehealth access; address VA hiring/backlogs; expand peer support and community counseling; ensure care for women veterans; preserve HUD-VASH; support employer incentives and veteran-owned businesses.
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Preserve and strengthen the HUD-VASH program to keep roofs over the heads of Montana veterans, and champion programs and employer incentives that help veterans build civilian careers and launch small businesses in Montana's rural communities.
Retiring with Dignity
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyProtect Social Security and Medicare benefits while improving long-term solvency and rural provider access.
- Strengthen Social Security through fairer contributions from high earners rather than benefit cuts; oppose raising Medicare eligibility age or shifting costs to beneficiaries; maintain rural Medicare reimbursement; confront federal spending that threatens earned programs.
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Defend Medicare against harmful changes , including any effort to raise the eligibility age or shift costs onto beneficiaries, while maintaining Medicare reimbursement rates for rural providers so seniors in small communities keep access to their local doctors.
Confront reckless Washington spending that puts these earned programs at risk in the first place.
Data Centers
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyCondition data-center development on ratepayer, water, transparency, and local-control protections.
- Oppose projects that raise electricity costs, threaten water/wildlife, or lack community input; champion a Ratepayer Protection Act; tie federal tax incentives to ratepayer protections; mandate disclosure of water and energy use; hold utilities to merger/rate commitments; give local communities explicit review and rejection authority.
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Tie federal tax incentives—including depreciation and corporate tax benefits— directly to whether a facility strictly meets its ratepayer protection obligations.
Mandate federal transparency requiring full public disclosure of every data center’s real-time water and energy consumption.
Food Security
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyStrengthen farm stability, market competition, repair rights, labeling, and trade access.
- Pass a full five-year Farm Bill; provide relief from trade disruptions; pursue antitrust action against concentrated meatpacking/agribusiness; rebuild local processing infrastructure; pass Right to Repair; restore Country-of-Origin Labeling while minimizing burdens on ranchers.
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Take on consolidation by pursuing antitrust action against meatpackers and consolidated agribusiness, and rebuild the local mills, packing plants, and rural infrastructure that consolidation has hollowed out.
Pass Right to Repair , so farmers can fix their own equipment instead of relying solely on expensive, manufacturer-authorized technicians.
Food and Agriculture Market Conditions
Candidate positionFactVote summary · Issue AssessmentArgues that changing tariffs, farm bankruptcies, meatpacking consolidation, and loss of Country-of-Origin Labeling have weakened Montana farmers' and ranchers' market position.
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Restore Country-of-Origin Labeling while ensuring that it doesn’t drive up costs and complexity for ranchers here in Montana.
Energy Security
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyAdopt an all-of-the-above energy strategy that expands generation and transmission, lowers costs, supports independence, and makes industry pay appropriate public-land costs.
- Invest in generation and transmission; use emerging technologies alongside existing resources; require energy companies using public lands to pay fair royalties; make private industry responsible for cleanup and reclamation costs.
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Require energy companies , fossil fuel or alternative, that profit from our public lands to pay their fair share in royalties back to the American people.
Put the cost of cleaning up and reclaiming industrial sites on private industry, not taxpayers .
Energy Mix and Competitiveness
Candidate positionFactVote summary · BeliefEnergy policy should not be driven by a single ideological preference for or against fossil fuels or renewables; Montana should pursue a practical all-of-the-above approach.
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America needs to produce more energy, and Montana deserves an energy plan that's genuinely all-of-the-above. In the military, we were taught that you should never depend on one supply line. Our energy policy shouldn’t either. Unfortunately, we've let ideology creep too far into this conversation, and Montanans are the ones paying higher costs because of it. Utility bills are through the roof. Some believe we can simply turn off our reliance on fossil fuels. That's not realistic. Others believe we must halt development of renewables because it's become a convenient culture-war target. That's not serious, either.
Enact a true “all of the above” energy strategy that unlocks the power of emerging technologies to ensure American energy independence, lower costs, and reduce emissions.
Economic Security
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyUse Montana's universities, natural resources, tourism, workforce, forestry, training programs, and infrastructure to expand good-paying jobs.
- Continue investment in UM, MSU, Montana Tech, and other campuses; support innovation and business creation in advanced sensing, resource management, and defense technology; protect tourism and public-land agencies; rejuvenate wood products through forest management and new markets; expand skills programs such as AccelerateMT; invest in roads, rail, air service, and broadband.
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Support innovation and new business creation in key areas where Montana already has an edge, such as advanced sensing and photonics, resource management, and defense technology.
Protect Montana’s tourism industry by supporting small businesses across our state (outfitters, guides, B&Bs, hotels, restaurants) and the federal agencies (Forest Service, BLM, NPS) charged with protecting our public lands and natural resources for future generations
Accelerate Montana
Candidate’s account of past workFactVote summary · Record / Past ActionLaunched AccelerateMT at the University of Montana as an employer-linked, skills-based workforce education program.
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Invest in programs like AccelerateMT , which I launched at the University of Montana, to provide skills-based education in partnership with employers to prepare Montanans - at all stages of their lives and careers - for high-demand jobs across our state.
Military Security
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyMaintain Montana's defense role through Malmstrom modernization, university defense research, defense-technology investment, and stronger alliances.
- Fully implement Minuteman Missile Modernization at Malmstrom; direct work opportunities toward Montana workers; fund defense research at Montana universities; invest in defense technology; rebuild diplomatic and military alliances.
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Ensure the Minuteman Missile Modernization project at Malmstrom Air Force Base is fully implemented , that Montana’s workers are the ones completing this upgrade, and that Malmstrom Air Force base plays a vital role in the future plans of the US military.
Fiscal Responsibility: Our Obligation to the Next Generation
Candidate positionFactVote summary · BeliefDescribes the national debt as a moral failure that shifts costs to future generations and argues that fiscal sustainability can coexist with protecting Social Security, Medicare, and investment.
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Fiscal Responsibility: Our Obligation to the Next Generation
Strong Border and an Immigration System That Works
Candidate positionFactVote summary · Goal / PriorityPursue secure borders and an immigration system that is orderly, fair, functional, supportive of lawful labor needs, and respectful of constitutional protections.
- Also describes immigration as a source of U.S. prosperity and national strength.
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We must also recognize immigration as a key source of American prosperity and security. President Reagan described immigration as “one of the most important sources of American greatness.” He said:
Political System and Institutional Capture
Candidate positionFactVote summary · Issue AssessmentArgues that national donors, insiders, lobbying, stock trading, gerrymandering, dark money, and the revolving door have distorted representation and left working Montanans with less influence.
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Washington has been captured by political elites , by national donors, and by an insider class that uses our institutions to protect themselves while working Montanans get left behind.
Seth's Independent Pledge
Candidate positionFactVote summary · Goal / PriorityRemain independent of both major-party caucuses and work with senators from either party when legislation benefits Montana.
- Will not caucus with Democrats or Republicans; supports bringing bipartisan legislation to votes and working with any senator when it serves Montana.
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Seth is pledging his loyalty to Montanans above either party. Seth rejects the notion that Montanans have to accept a political system where elected officials must submit to the leader of a Party, vote the way they’re told, and engage in endless political warfare with the other side. That’s why Seth will not caucus with the Democrats or Republicans. He will work with independent-minded Senators to pull our extreme partisan politics back toward solutions that serve the majority of Montanans and Americans who are in the sensible center. Seth will push the Senate toward voting on legislation that has bipartisan support, and work with anyone when it helps Montana and stand up to anyone when it doesn't.
Ban Members of Congress from Enriching Themselves on Insider Info
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyBan individual stock trading and prediction-market activity by federal officials and speed up financial-transaction disclosure.
- Require divestment or blind trusts for members of Congress and immediate family; replace 30-day disclosure with public disclosure within 48 hours; ban prediction-market use by members/staff and senior executive officials.
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Replace the current 30-day disclosure window with real-time public disclosure within 48 hours of any financial transaction
Sponsor a bill creating an immediate ban on use of prediction markets by Members and staff of Congress, and political appointees and senior members of the Executive Branch
Full Financial Transparency for Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Supreme Court
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyExpand conflict-of-interest rules, searchable financial disclosure, Supreme Court ethics requirements, and independent congressional ethics enforcement.
- Financial disclosures within 30 days of taking office and annually; binding Supreme Court code of conduct and enforceable recusals; strengthen the Office of Congressional Ethics and give it subpoena power.
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Require all members of Congress to file financial disclosures within 30 days of taking office , and annually thereafter, accessible to the public through a searchable, sortable online database, not PDFs buried on a government website
A binding code of conduct and mandatory financial disclosure for Supreme Court justices , with an enforceable recusal standard. The Court cannot remain the only institution in Washington without ethics rules
No Budget, No Pay
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicySuspend congressional pay and require the Senate to remain in session during periods when the federal government is shut down.
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No Budget, No Pay: End the culture of governing by crisis
Term Limits and Age Limits
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyImpose term and age limits on elected federal officials and establish time-limited Supreme Court service.
- Three-term limit for U.S. senators; maximum age of 75 at swearing-in for federal elected offices; constitutional amendment for 18-year Supreme Court terms; mandatory senior status for federal judges over 75.
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Seth also supports a constitutional amendment establishing 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices and mandatory senior status, with reduced caseload and no new majority opinions, for federal judges over the age of 75.
Slam the Revolving Door Between Congress and K Street
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyCreate lifetime lobbying restrictions for members of Congress and senior executive officials.
- Lifetime ban on lobbying agencies or committees an official served; lifetime ban on former members of Congress becoming registered lobbyists for foreign governments.
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A lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming registered lobbyists for foreign governments
Overturn Citizens United
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicySupport a constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United and limiting unlimited, anonymous corporate election spending.
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Overturn Citizens United
End Gerrymandering with Mandatory Nonpartisan Redistricting
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyRequire nonpartisan redistricting for federal elections using independent commissions insulated from partisan manipulation.
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End gerrymandering with mandatory nonpartisan redistricting
Fix the Primary System
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicySupport nonpartisan open primaries and ranked-choice voting for federal elections.
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Gerrymandering reform only goes so far if primary elections still reward the loudest and most extreme voices. Seth supports nonpartisan open primaries and ranked-choice voting for federal elections, producing winners with genuine majority support.
Protect Local Control of Elections with Accountability, Not Partisanship
Candidate positionFactVote summary · PolicyOppose federal control of state election administration while supporting common accountability safeguards.
- Keep election administration with states; paper-ballot backups; transparent post-election audits; nonpartisan county election administration; timely public reporting of results.
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At the same time, Seth supports providing resources that give every voter of any party confidence in results: Paper ballot backups for all voting systems, transparent post-election auditing, nonpartisan election administration at the county level, and timely public reporting of results. Trust in elections requires both local control and local accountability.
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