Jon Tester

The Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC) programs are a cornerstone of the development, recruitment and retention of a full range of much needed healthcare professionals.

We just have to do better work as a Congress to try to get this fixed.

Last year was a tough fire season, particularly in Southern Montana.

But there has been, I think, a lack of communication and collaboration between the VA and the private providers.

I want to talk a little bit about partnership with volunteers particularly as it applies to rural America.

The bottom line is in Indian Country, there is not a lot of extra money to shave and we all know that.

The budget is about priorities and I look forward to hearing from the witnesses today why money was put where as far as priorities go.

I think it depends on what conflict they were involved in. I can tell you there are a lot of vets that were turned down for service years ago.

We are at a time when agencies are attempting to do more with less. So, it only makes sense to work more collaboratively with partners, to better utilize all the tools that are at our disposal.

I want to talk about something the Chairman has been an advocate of for some time now and this is community health centers.

I very much appreciate particularly the statement the one size does not fit all.

I think it is--well, point well taken. You will get back to me.

I am not sure voluntary labeling is ever going to happen, or it would have already happened.

The amount of testing that is done on genetically modified foods is slim to none, and slim just left town.

Can you explain why the rules that were proposed last January do not address this issue, and do you plan on addressing it in the final rule?

We want our food to be safe, no mistake about that.

I think the time is ripe to address this issue and move it forward.

I believe now is the time to move forward with solutions to restructure the finance system, housing finance system, long-term, to provide stability for the long haul.

The Association also supports the 'Ruth Moore Act' sponsored by Senator Jon Tester that will improve the disability compensation evaluation procedure at the VA for veterans with mental health conditions related to military sexual trauma.

The ``Reserve Retirement Deployment Credit Correction Act'' (S. 240) sponsored by Senator Jon Tester (MT)

FRA recommends support for the 'Servicemembers Mental Health Review Act' (S. 628), sponsored by Senator Jon Tester (MT)...

I just think that college affordability for my kids was a whole lot different than college affordability was for my parents or me.

But special education, which has never been funded up to snuff, wasn't around when I was in school. It does great things. It continues to be underfunded and underfunded and underfunded.

We've talked about technology, and we've talked a lot about innovation.

What I would like you to do is just commit some of your staff to my staff to go through what you're doing with Race to the Top to make sure that rural America has access to it without pumping a bunch of money into administration.