Jon Tester: “OK. From a technology standpoint, you can operate everything you need to do with what's there right now.”

I would say two things. Number one this administration has totally blown the opportunity to make government more efficient by going in with a -- with a -- with a meat cleaver and just hack up agencies.

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

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 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.