Jon Tester: “I certainly look forward to working with Senator Johanns and many of our witnesses today and others in getting this…”

“During my last two races the democratic Party was poison in my attempts to get re-elected.”

That's because I don't want this race to be nationalized any more than they want it to be nationalized. I'm going to talk about Montana. That's what this race is about.

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

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