Jon Tester: “We appreciate the hard work that has gone into strengthening the bill since it was originally introduced in 2009.”

In the end, do you think you can deliver this at or less of a cost the pipeline would have run you?

I am going to start by saying that, being 68 years of age, I oftentimes do things that may not be the smartest, and one of the things I did yesterday was play basketball due to the influence of my bald-headed chief of staff Dylan Laslovich…

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

I think we need to take these things seriously. I think the president and I think, more importantly, the military are taking it very, very seriously.