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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Jan 5, 2022

I applauded his actions a couple of days ago. Now Congress needs to step up and meet our end of the bargain too, so we can keep our food chain secure.

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Jan 5, 2022

His point is that when you only have a few players in the business, there isn`t real competition and for capitalism to work, you have to have competition and for far too long, my entire lifetime, we`ve had too much consolidation in the…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 16, 2021

So are you suggesting we shouldn't raise the debt and not pay our debts and default? Is that the suggestion? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 16, 2021

Very crafty--fifty percent is used on roads, bridges, and seaports, and you make it sound like the rest isn't used on infrastructure. Since when did water not become infrastructure? Since when did improving our transmission lines not…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 16, 2021

Yes, it wasn't paid for. It added to the debt. Had the good Senator been here when we passed the Trump tax cuts, that also added $2 trillion a year to the debt, and he would have justified that. If you want to talk about building our…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 16, 2021

I heard the Senator from Florida just say that he invested in education, workforce training, and infrastructure. If he would have not had an administration that would have been able to have gotten that money out the door, then he wouldn't…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 16, 2021

I rise today to speak in support of Meera Joshi to be the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Now, there may be some folks out there who are not familiar with this Agency, but I can tell you Montanans are. I can tell…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 16, 2021

facts are a nasty thing. Do you know that? I would ask the good Senator from Florida to read the damn bill. This bill is to put money into roads and bridges, to put money into our electrical grid, to put money into our ports, to make our…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 16, 2021

So if you truly want to help the trucking industry, and it sounds like you have personal experience with it--the good Senator from Florida--putting the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would be a great start. If you…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 14, 2021

I know all our hearts go out to the folks in Kentucky and that whole region that got hit by that massive tornado.

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 14, 2021

I do come from Montana, and we have dealt with Mother Nature, the good, the bad, the ugly.

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 14, 2021

I never, ever remember having smoke for 2 or 3 months out of the year, and I live in eastern Montana.

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Steve Daines
@stevedaines· Republican · MT· Dec 13, 2021

Stablecoin policy is an area where I think there should be, and hopefully there will be, broad bipartisan agreement as well as compromise.

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Steve Daines
@stevedaines· Republican · MT· Dec 13, 2021

I would urge my colleagues to avoid hyperpartisan solutions and instead seek consensus on something that is truly bipartisan.

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 7, 2021

Tribal sovereignty needs to be in the forefront of these discussions around VAWA reauthorization, and rightfully so.

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Matt Rosendale
@mattrosendale· Republican · MT· Dec 7, 2021

On this National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I rise to honor Charlie Dowd, Montana's last living Pearl Harbor survivor. Charlie was just a 17-year-old radioman stationed at Pearl Harbor…

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Jon Tester
@jontester· Democratic · MT· Dec 7, 2021

I want to thank you for your statement, Mr. DelBene, and I will also tell you that I look forward to getting you confirmed so you can get on the job and start doing what I think can be some really, really, really good work for our veterans…

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Steve Daines
@stevedaines· Republican · MT· Dec 7, 2021

It is imperative that we as a legislative body put some of these pet projects aside.

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