Jon Tester: “I thank my colleague for the recognition and for his leadership and his ability to see through the fog that has been…”

“I thank my colleague for the recognition and for his leadership and his ability to see through the fog that has been created here in the Senate. You know I am a farmer. Most folks in this body know I am a farmer and I have been my entire life. One of the things farmers can't deal with is idle hands. When there is work to be done, you roll up your sleeves and you get out there and you get the work done. In Montana, right now it is planting season, and the folks there who are in agriculture--as with small businesses and working families, but in agriculture particularly--are looking at either getting their fields ready or they are in the field putting seeds in the ground because the work is there and it has to be done. You have an opportunity to do it, and you do it. Well, it is planting season in the Senate all the time. Whether it is creating jobs or turning the economy around or fixing health care or whatever it may be, we have important work to do. The folks on the other side of the aisle, I guess, are watching the clouds roll by, because the fact is, it is time to go to work. Obstructionism is not something that takes a lot of skill, but getting things done requires hard work, and it is time to get things done. These judicial appointments we have to do right now in the Senate are critically important.”