Jon Tester: “We can make excuses up. We can talk about how we are too busy to do this.”

I appreciate the recognition. I rise today to talk about an issue that is a disaster. Earlier this week, we saw a water diversion project, that takes water from the St. Mary drainage and puts it in the Milk River, literally blow up. That…

I think it's really important for food security. The folks -- this is a ban against China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, folks who don't want to see us exist anymore as a nation.

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

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