"Our unemployment rate there is approaching 16 percent, very serious because of the wood products industries is in the tank."
"It is critically important. In these tough economic conditions, the Recovery Act in Montana is already working to rebuild the economy from the ground up with infrastructure projects."
"I pushed your agency to get some money out to some water projects along the Northern Tier."
"the Recovery Act's transparency provisions build on efforts that I have been doing, going back to 2007, to bring more accountability and transparency to government."
"What happens to the people who get money and do not spend it correctly?"
"I commend the President for that."
"Senator Tester is an incredible ally in the fight to secure adequate treatment for veterans with mental illness."
"This veteran's plight highlights the fact that our failure to treat a veteran's mental illness at a preliminary stage will eventually lead to a higher and more expensive level of care."
"Early treatment is more effective from both a medical and cost standpoint."
"we need to ensure that the VA has access to, or can arrange, geographically dispersed crisis beds to ensure that no veteran must be made to travel more than two or three hours to get to a safe place o..."
"There will be an increase in the veterans' budget that will be proposed by the President."