Jon Tester: “I think, making sure we are getting the biggest bang for the buck, by getting folks to have competitive contracts, and…”

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

It is so really, really important that you guys have the home Senators on board for this stuff.

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.

I ask that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nebraska. ____________________