Jon Tester: “I want to welcome everybody to this hearing. As the Chairman of this Committee, I am very aware of the dire need for…”

Well, I think it's really bad. All you got to do is look at the market. But the truth is, is that if you're a businessman, you understand that what you need in the marketplace is certainty.

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.

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