WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Montana state lawmaker, Rep. Bob Mehlhoff of Great Falls, spoke Wednesday to the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee at the request of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.
Mehlhoff, a Democrat, expressed alarm at the prospect of communities being forced to foot the bill for expensive certification of flood levees or face dramatic increases in flood insurance rates.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said Wednesday that senators who oversee the U.S. Postal Service’s budget will block a proposal by the head of that agency to drop Saturday mail delivery.
Postmaster General John E. Potter has urged the change to five-day mail delivery, saying that the cash-strapped post office won’t survive without such a fundamental change to its operations.
Senate Homeland Security member Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) had harsh words for former Arlington National Cemetery Superintendent John Metzler on Thursday, asking him if family members will be sure that they are “standing at the real grave site of [their] loved one.”
Metzler ran the historic military burial ground for almost two decades. A recent investigation by the Army revealed that as many as 6,600 graves had been mismarked.
A U.S. senate panel approves $150,000 to establish a loan fund in Whitehall for ongoing recovery from a massive 2009 fire that destroyed several buildings in the business district.
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