Steve Daines
Republican · MT · U.S. Senate
Steve Daines is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Alani Bankhead vs. Kurt Alme.
R +3 points of win probability since January.
Bio
Steven David Daines is an American politician and businessman serving as the senior United States senator from Montana, a seat he has held since 2015. He is the first Republican Class II senator from Montana in 102 years. Daines represented Montana's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- Chambers
- House 2y, Senate 11.7y
- First took office
- 2013 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 57 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 64
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Senate Republican Committee Chair · 2023–2025
- Billings, MT · 406-245-6822
- Great Falls, MT · 406-453-0148
- Helena, MT · 406-443-3189
- Missoula, MT · 406-549-8198
- Sidney, MT · 406-482-9010
- Bozeman, MT · 406-587-3446
- Kalispell, MT · 406-257-3765
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $8.5M – $32.8M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $8.5M – $32.8M
- Since 2018
- +$4.2M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Steve Daines's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Steve Daines (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Dainessits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairscenter · 11 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Daines's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Senate rules would change under sweeping bipartisan proposalThe News A bipartisan pair of senators wants to do something bold before a new Congress takes over: Fix the Senate’s frequently maligned rules. No, Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., don’t want to end the filibuster. But they have a propos…
Biztoc.com · October 8, 2026
US-China tensions persist despite Trump-Xi summit's rare warmth: Trump aideSerious differences persist between the US and China despite the recent summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington, which was marked by rare bonhomie, a close Trump aide said. Both sides still have issues tha…
Business Standard · October 3, 2026
Republican Senator Warns GOP Is in for a Midterm Drubbing: ‘Feels a Lot Like 2006’Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) said Republicans may be headed for a midterm beatdown, the kind of which they have not experienced in 20 years. Republicans are broadly expected to lose their narrow House majority and possibly the Senate, where Democrats will need to…
Mediaite · October 2, 2026
A Senate Bill Would Make Small Stablecoin Purchases Tax-Free and Close Crypto’s Wash-Sale Loophole. What Changes for Bitcoin and XRP Holders?The post A Senate Bill Would Make Small Stablecoin Purchases Tax-Free and Close Crypto’s Wash-Sale Loophole. What Changes for Bitcoin and XRP Holders? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Senator Steve Daines of Montana has introduced a comprehensive 56-page cryp…
Biztoc.com · September 30, 2026
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