Jon Tester

A few years back we cut Embassy security and ended up with a horrible situation in a place called Benghazi

I think we need them. Quite frankly, we are talking about a budget here that you are looking at saving somewhere between a dollar and $1.5 billion, and we cannot get full-body scanners.

If it does not do the job it is intended to do, we need to know about it directly.

You are confident that this information is being used by the people who need it and nobody else?

I would pin you down on these full-body scanners some more

It is critically important if we are going to have any kind of economy.

I appreciate what you are doing, and I do appreciate the work everybody at this table and their priorities for the fiscal year.

So do you anticipate that litigation is going to be solved by this month?

Hopefully through your work, and if you continue to lay out the case and be honest with Congress about what the needs are...

I think your idea was the original intent of that Reclamation Fund to plow back into investment and infrastructure.

By fall, the growing season is over.

That is not the right answer.

There is nothing dishonorable about the men and women who battle with mental health issues, and they deserve to be treated with dignity and compassion, and the best care that we can provide.

I think if these folks who acquired PTSD or TBI in service, we need to take responsibility for that.

So the question is without discussing the merits of the environmental review and the moratorium itself...

Now I support ensuring the taxpayers receive their fair share of the revenues.

I think it is important for us to hold the agency accountable.

I am hearing a lot about this. I am not sure that it solves any of the problems with pay going to a kiosk because if a guy wants to be a crook, he will be a crook on a kiosk just as well.

If we want the VA to work, we have got to put our trust there.

I would just say this: as a Committee--and I would be happy to work with the Chairman so it is on a bipartisan basis--we need to push the leadership to get these bills to the floor to hold this man accountable.

I believe we have a bill--maybe not totally what you want, but a bill to get that done I think has come out of this Committee.

I believe them to be very much relevant and cost-effective to boot.

I appreciate all those investments and that investment.

We would love to have there and/or both of you out at any point in time.

Would you not agree that the best place to put those MAFs are in places where we have a lot of wooded area like west of the Mississippi?