Southwest Montana News

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) released a statement following his vote against H.R. 9494, the Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2025.

“The House of Representatives just voted down the CR with the SAVE Act attached to it," said Rep. Rosendale. "Finally, enough of the representatives have been honest with themselves and with the voters to say, you know something to say, that first of all, it's not going to be implemented or passed by the Senate, and if it was and it truly wasn't going to be able to be implemented for this year's elections anyway. So, they have been able to defeat this bill, with, I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 of us Republicans voting against it, which puts us in a position to go back and do our work properly which is to pass appropriation bills to transparently and properly fund the federal government.”

Rep. Rosendale has been a strong supporter of the SAVE Act and voted for its passage in the House on July 10, 2024. He emphasized that attaching the SAVE Act to a Continuing Resolution would fail to uphold the House rule of single-subject legislation and would not protect the 2024 election since some early-vote ballots have already been distributed.