Jon Tester

Research development can do a lot of good things for Indian Country, and a lot of good things for this Country.

Are you able to train the people that are your neighbors to be able to obtain the jobs when those jobs come available?

In Montana, unemployment is damned high.

Do you have a Tribal college on your reservation?

The question becomes, is there an analysis to know if the delivery of the product onto the fire is more cost beneficial with these bigger, more expensive planes?

I think you've got about a $6 billion backlog in roads as it is, that we're going exactly in the wrong direction.

I appreciate that. They have been top flight, I agree. Thank you.

What H.R. 1581 is going to do is release a lot of pristine, back-country land, good elk, good fisheries, just incredibly prized elk habitat and blue ribbon fisheries.

I am disappointed we were unable to put aside partisan politics earlier this year to reauthorize and improve this important institution.

I have been a strong proponent of Export-Import Bank reauthorization and would like to see this bill passed as soon as possible.

In reauthorizing the Bank's charter, we must also ensure that we hold the Ex-Im Bank to the highest standards of transparency and accountability.

We can and should reauthorize the Bank's charter before it expires at the end of May.

I would say I dare somebody to show me how you get best value out of a non-compete contract.

I recently joined Senator McCaskill on legislation that would implement many of the recommendations for the Commission on Wartime Contracting.

We are talking about $60 billion here.

I think it is amazing that--everybody should be able to tell us that number just like that.

Thirty percent is not chump change. I mean, that is pretty incredible.

I cannot say that. I have not seen that. And when we are talking about deficits--by the way, this is inappropriate at any time, but especially when we are talking about deficits like we have now--we have to get our arms around this…

I can tell you that when we talk about $60 billion being gone up in air--and $60 billion is a lot of change, I mean, that is a lot of Montana budgets for a lot of years--we are doing something wrong and it is unacceptable.

The concept of no-bid contracts is an amazing concept to me.

I think we can also acknowledge that I think there are a number of contractors who are out there that are overeating at the taxpayer trough.

Secretary Panetta said that he would take under consideration.

I think ICBMs--it's the wrong direction to go.

The $27 million is adequate for fiscal year 2013 to get the job done for this year--for that year?

If there's a huge mission gap between the F-15s leaving, the C-130s leaving, we are in trouble.