Jon Tester

A lot of people do not know about the career opportunities you have in Customs and Border Protection.

Make no mistake about it. As we point fingers at one another, Congress gets most of the fingers pointed at them, and rightfully so.

I could not agree more.

If they want to close down a processing center, who makes that call?

But when it comes right down to it, if the Postal Service wants to do it, you cannot stop them.

So who puts forth the recommendations on how to fix it?

Make this a priority to get it done, because it is just really important, as Senator Heitkamp has pointed out, for rural America.

I could not agree more with Mr. Acton when--I mean, I think finances do have an impact on everything we do.

I think you report to a number of Committees. I think, maybe, 119 Congressional Committees and Subcommittees--119.

I do not care if you live in Montana or New Jersey or anywhere in between, affordable housing is a big, big, big issue.

But can you tell me how a company can take a generic and change it very, very slightly and end up to be able to go take it back on the market and jack the price up when it is basically the same generic it was before they modified it very…

As I go home, I hear from not only patients and friends and family, but I hear from doctors about what is going on with pharmaceuticals.

I mean, is it just pure greed that they would increase the prices like that?

I do not have any problem with a pharmaceutical company getting their research and development money back.

Every time you say that, you give ammunition to the folk who want to break up the big banks.

Well, I think it is really important that you understand that this is a big deal.

And I am telling you, it is a big deal.

Well, this is a big deal.

I have been on this Committee for nearly 10 years now. You have done something that has never happened in the last 10 years and united this Committee on a major topic, and not in a good way.

The federal government has a responsibility to uphold its commitments to tribal nations.

Do you see this as a tool that would help Tribes with their self-determination, with their sovereignty, and with their ability to serve their citizens?

It is a complicated issue. I don't think any of us fully understand the impacts.

You give me the tools that I need to work with and then get out of the road and let me go.

I come from Montana. Those are large land-based Tribes up there.

I look forward to working with the Chairman and anybody on both sides, and our Native American friends, to make sure that when we get done we have something that actually makes it better.