Jon Tester: “It amazes me that some over in the House want to take away these opportunities.”

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

I ask unanimous consent that the Tester- Daines substitute amendment at the desk be agreed to and the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 2074)…

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

I would say two things. Number one this administration has totally blown the opportunity to make government more efficient by going in with a -- with a -- with a meat cleaver and just hack up agencies.