Jon Tester: “I think it is important, Mr. Chairman, that we do this with regularity. I think it is very helpful.”

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

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.

This has been a phenomenon that we haven't had recently, where we've had other countries that have went into our airspace for the purpose of trying to gather information.

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.