Jon Tester: “We might be able to address some of those issues in the Farm Bill if you can point us in the right direction.”

Many years ago, my Native friends told me that water is life, and it is, for all lives.

There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.

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.