The Democratic Record 2005-2006
This is what your Democratic Legislators accomplished in the 2005 legislative session with Governor Brian Schweitzer.
Education
- Record amount of investment in our public schools.
- Increased support for MSU, the university system, and vo-tech schools.
- Passed some of the toughest laws in the country.
- Locked up the ingredients for meth: pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) and anhydrous ammonia (fertilizer)
- Drastically reduced the number of meth labs in Montana
- Health insurance buying pool for small businesses.
- 13,000 small business removed from the business equipment tax.
- Brought back the Made in Montana program.
- The movie business is back in Bozeman.
- Our first wind farm is up and running.
- Biodiesel and ethanol are on the way.
- Improved hunting access.
- protected fishing access.
- Increased the block grant program.
- Made the habitat program permanent.
- Full funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program.
- Prescription drug help for low-income Montanans.
- Stabilized the state pension system.
- Common sense medical malpractice reform.
- No tax increases!