Jon Tester: “That is fine. I just want to talk just very briefly on re-importation because people think this is a panacea.”

It is always good to have you in front of the Committee.

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

I think it'd be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.

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.