Jon Tester

I think there are 30 bills out there to do this and this is just one of many.

I hope that when you are in the highest levels of the Pentagon, that you discuss this candidly.

A full-year continuing resolution (CR) would be a fiscally unsound way of funding the Department, the Navy, the Navy Reserve and government as a whole.

I think there are 30 bills out there to do this and this is just one of many.

I don't know anybody that can tell me why this person had access to this particular classified information, but it is troublesome.

we will probably address that topic at a later moment, but CRs certainly have an impact on us.

we are going to be 100 percent committed this year.

We appreciate your work and making sure that our national defense is up to where it needs to be.

Ultimately, this person didn't do it without somebody above him knowing what was going on.

It is my sincere hope that with the threat of Government default hopefully averted, we can now make progress on passing the Government's budget on time.

I think we need to learn from the past as we move forward in the future.

This Committee, on a bipartisan basis, has pushed the Department to hold Oracle Cerner more accountable.

the taxpayer gets the biggest bang for the buck.

This bill does not work unless CFIUS can do the enforcement.

The workload certainly isn't decreasing, and the ongoing mission in the Southwest border, as well as your support to European Command, demonstrate exactly that.

This bill does not work unless CFIUS can do the enforcement.

I think there are 30 bills out there to do this and this is just one of many--to regulate who is buying land

this bill does not work unless CFIUS can do the enforcement. You have to have an enforcement tool.

Getting this fix signed into law by the President is vital, because needed forest management needs to continue versus being delayed by litigation.

I think that both the Secretary and you gentlemen have shared valuable insight as we move forward with the appropriations process for 2024.

I am also concerned with House efforts to rescind $1.8 billion we already appropriated for delivering veterans' health care.

Our next step cannot be to immediately renege on that pledge.

Delivering more money for veterans is not the solution, but delivering better outcomes is.

I have said many times that Congress needs to take its cues from the veterans.

We make a promise to those who serve our country to deliver for them, and if the VA is going to make good on that promise, they have to have resources to do so.