Jon Tester: “I want to commend the Committee members, the sponsors of today's bills and the Federal agencies committed to restoring…”

This has been a phenomenon that we haven't had recently, where we've had other countries that have went into our airspace for the purpose of trying to gather information.

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.

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