Jon Tester: “A lot of our forests are red and dead. A lot of that material cannot be made into plywood or 2 by 4's or anything.”

In the end, do you think you can deliver this at or less of a cost the pipeline would have run you?

I think it's really important for food security. The folks -- this is a ban against China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, folks who don't want to see us exist anymore as a nation.

I ask unanimous consent that the Tester- Daines substitute amendment at the desk be agreed to and the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 2074)…

This has been a rubber stamp Congress so far.