Brian Schweitzer

HELENA- Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) is pushing U.S. Congress to pass an extension of the production tax credit. Companies currently generating wind, solar, geothermal and bioenergy can get a tax credit for the first 10 years the facility is ...  

Brian Schweitzer are urging Congress to extend a production tax credit for the wind power industry. Salazar and Schweitzer said in a call with reporters Friday that energy producers aren't able to plan for next year and beyond without knowing ...  

HELENA — Gov. Brian Schweitzer on Wednesday told fellow Missouri River governors that downstream states need to implement new strategies for mitigating floods that don't involve drastically drawing down upstream reservoirs such as Fort Peck.  

Public Policy Polling (PDF). 4/26-29. Usual Democratic primary voters. MoE 5.4% Max Baucus (D) 37 Brian Schweitzer (D) 48 As chair of the Senate finance committee, Sen. Max Baucus led the charge against even cursory exploration of a single-payer system (which could've been used, at worst, as a bargaining chip toward making the public option the default compromise), then hosted the so-called Gang of Six "negotiations" with Sens. Olympia Snowe...  

Flathead BeaconBrian Schweitzer, Montana Governor, Throws Support Behind Overturning Citizens ...Huffington PostFederal Election Commission and of corporate money in politics, according to its Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer. On Thursday, Schweitzer and Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger, a Republican, held a press conference to announce their support for state ...Schweitzer, Bohlinger say I-166 will keep corruption out of politicsKAJ18 Kalispell...  

It’s way too early to be talking about the 2016 presidential race, so naturally Public Policy Polling released a poll yesterday looking at the 2016 presidential primaries. If this poll matters and Gov. Brian Schweitzer cares, things don’t look good for his hypothetical presidential run in 2016. But the poll doesn’t really matter and Schweitzer, I would guess, doesn’t really care, considering that it’s only 2012 and he has repeatedly stated...  

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who appears on the "Late Show with David Letterman" tonight, parked a tractor-trailer in Times Square Tuesday and handed out beef jerky and huckleberry jam. Schweitzer says his trip to the Big Apple to promote tourism is timely because United Airlines begins offering direct flights from Newark to Bozeman on June 9. Here's a video from his trip. Governor Brian Schweitzer visits the Big Apple from Pangolin...  

The three-person board submitted its recommendation to Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who will make the final decision whether to grant Smith clemency and commute his sentence to life in prison without parole. Schweitzer’s office gave no timeline Monday for his ...  

Our ever-chatty, never-boring governor is making national headlines for some comments he made about Mitt Romney and Mormonism in an interview with The Daily Beast yesterday. Gov. Brian Schweitzer told The Daily Beast that Romney could have some issues in this election because his father was "born on a polygamy commune in Mexico." Ben Jacobs of The Daily Beast reports: While discussing swing states, Schweitzer said Romney would have a “tall...  

When Stan Stephens was elected as Montana’s 20th governor in 1988, replacing Democrat Ted Schwinden, it started a run of 16 straight years of Republican control in the governor’s office. That streak was broken when political newcomer Brian Schweitzer claimed a victory for the Democrats in 2004 and was then reelected in 2008. With Schweitzer now term limited, the door is open for Republicans to once again take the state’s gubernatorial reins...  

Video - Governor Of Montana Brian Schweitzer Shares Joke With Photographers ...Contactmusic.com7-year Governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer jokes with photographers as he arrives outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York for his appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. He stops for photos then greets and waves across the street at the ...and more »  

HELENA — A Republican state lawmaker thinks Gov. Brian Schweitzer broke the law earlier this year when he authorized the transport of more than 60 bison from a quarantine facility near Yellowstone National Park to northeastern Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation.  

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is defending his “polygamy commune” comments about Mitt Romney’s Mexican family roots and why his Mormon faith could be an electoral liability with Latinos and women voters. “People are taking this far away ...  

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) is causing a bit of a stir with his comment that Mitt Romney’s family came from a “polygamy commune.” In an interview with the Daily Beast on Thursday, the outspoken governor suggested Romney could identify with Latinos better if he talked about his family’s roots in Mexico. Read full article >>  

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer isn’t backing away from controversial comments he made about Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith. Instead, the Democrat is doubling down. Through a statement from a senior adviser, Schweitzer stood by his claim that ...