Jon Tester: “If we are going to be effective and efficient in this area, we need the best possible people to be filling the…”

I know of no further debate on the bill, as amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time and there being no further debate, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 1987), as amended, was passed.

These are important bills that need to get advanced, and today is the start of that.

This is -- what's gone on the last two weeks or so, 10 days, has been nothing short of craziness.

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