Jon Tester: “You've got a very difficult job, and I appreciate the work you do.”

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

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.

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

I think we need to take these things seriously. I think the president and I think, more importantly, the military are taking it very, very seriously.