Jon Tester: “I'm very encouraged to see the administration is putting some additional funding into renewable energy on public lands.”

I appreciate the recognition. I rise today to talk about an issue that is a disaster. Earlier this week, we saw a water diversion project, that takes water from the St. Mary drainage and puts it in the Milk River, literally blow up. That…

There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.

That's between me and a ballot box.

I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.