Jon Tester

We can also protect the shareholders who are just trying to save for retirement and want nothing to do with some CEO's politics.

As Caperton recognized, independent expenditures can have a 'significant and disproportionate influence' in corrupting the administration of justice.

I am principally concerned about the ways State elections are especially vulnerable to corporate corruption and ask you keep these concerns in mind as you consider reforms.

Del is a member of the Crow Tribe in Montana. Del is somebody that I have had the opportunity to work with in my years as a State Senator in Montana, and years as a U.S. Senator here in Washington, D.C.

I need to get a commitment from you that the Citizenship and Immigration Services... will work with my office to help expedite our ability to get those kids out.

Our borders are only as strong as the weakest link, and we do not want a panic and shut down of the border because we have trade issues.

Tourists spent $3 billion in Montana last year.

the approach that Senator Tester has taken in developing his bill indicates his solution to the conflict among competing uses of National Forest land.

We must have a viable timber industry if we are going to address the challenges ahead of us.

The National Forests in Western Montana... are in poor, even dangerous, condition.

You need to call us if you want us to respond.

The easiest way to really kill a good collaborative effort is not to support it once it happens.

Isn't it funny how the far left and the far right often connect up?

I believe the goals of the legislation can be achieved.

the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act enjoys overwhelming support.

S. 1470's passage would benefit Americans from current and future generations.

I am not going to do that.

I fully support the 18,950 acre proposed additions to the Lee Metcalf Wilderness.

I did not come to the U.S. Senate to shy away from hard issues.

the specific components of the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act were not intended to be replicated nationally

We strongly urge you and the administration to support S. 1470, the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, introduced by Senator Jon Tester in July.

The status quo is simply not acceptable. The public, the land and future generations deserve better.

We have got to get ahead of this, and the more we can get ahead, we are going to have more pristine forests.

Change is not easy, and no one expects it to be.

If you do the math backward on it, that amounts to about 7,000 acres of logging, which is exactly what this bill requires.