Jon Tester

And how many of those claims get to 365 days?

I guess the question is, is there a point and time on a claim, when it gets to a certain number of days, that you guys say, we fix this; we fix it now?

My time has also run out. But I would just say we have not hit break even yet.

You stated in your testimony that you have 125 days as your goal, but you have got 145,000 claims over 125 days?

Clean water promotes health and economic development and this bill helps to ensure that Montanans from communities across Eastern Montana are given that benefit.

We try to stay away from those guys in North Dakota, but absolutely.

This project has been in the works since 2002 and Mr. Kasten's leadership brings this issue to your chambers today.

I hope the Subcommittee will work with me in securing its swift passage in the 111th Congress.

Friends are the most valuable commodity you can have--easiest to lose and hardest to get.

We need to do a better job at helping our veterans find work.

Of course, you know my focus has been and continues to be on rural veterans.

We just need to figure out ways that we can--through those positions and the Labor Department, but also the VA--get these veterans back on their feet.

During my tenure, I think the VA got exponentially better--starting with Secretary Peake--and I think that Secretary Shinseki continues along those lines.

Who loses when there is no convergence?

For years, the neighborhood has been talking about the fact that the Chicago Board of Trade has been playing poker with our livelihood.

When it does not converge--convergence is where you want to be.

So these future contracts are based on real grain.

The convergence problem is big in Chicago.

I go back every weekend because it is much easier to be a farmer.

If you design your contracts better, what would stop them from going to Europe or China?

If you can do things in the marketplace to stop artificially inflating or artificially deflating the price of wheat--and I am much more concerned about the latter than the former--you have been successful.

I think that we all want to get the maximum bang for the buck when it comes to taxpayer dollars and when it comes to contracting.

When you have unemployment rates that rise well above 50 percent, in some cases 80 percent, it would be nice to give those folks fishing poles so they can do a little fishing.

The proposal provides authority for the agency to collect annual fees or assessments. How do you see this impacting smaller financial institutions?

Are we doing the same thing to the community banks that you just talked about to the Wall Street banks?