Jon Tester: “As Senator Tester noted, water is life, not only for our communities, it is the lifeblood of our number one industry…”

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)…

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

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.