Jon Tester

Don't stay here too long, kid.

The Defense subcommittee will reconvene on Thursday, June 24, at 10 a.m. to hear from the Navy and Marine Corps leadership on fiscal year 2022 Department of Navy budget request.

As the Arctic becomes more and more real, which is real right now, the points you bring up are certainly valid and sign me up.

The Army has recognized the need to become a more distributed and agile force.

That is good to know.

We need to know whether the dollars in this budget are enough to continue development and increase production on all of these new capabilities without jeopardizing today's readiness.

I appreciate your direct answer to that. Thank you very, very much.

I want to thank the Army, especially the soldiers of the National Guard, for their efforts in supporting the capital security mission over the last several months.

I look forward to working with her to tackle the tough issues in store over the coming years.

The Army is on an aggressive pursuit of modernization, including ground combat vehicles, soldier lethality, aviation, and long range attack capabilities.

If we are going to sign a multi-year contract, we ought to live up to it, or we should not sign it in the first place.

We must invest in some of these emerging technologies, of artificial intelligence, robotics, hypersonics, and so on.

It is about getting our troops what they need to do their jobs, at the right time, at the right cost.

As our adversaries continue to invest in new capabilities, the United States' decisive military advantage is not assured.

I think it is really, really important, because, the fact is wait times have been an issue which, by the way, why we have community care to begin with.

I want to thank Secretary McDonough for bringing up John Warner. John Warner gave me the best advice I have had since I got here.

We are relying on our National Guard more than ever, and I am concerned that we are going to reward them by asking them to do more with less.

I want to thank all the witnesses for being here.

I think you really do need to help the Fort Belknap Tribe and make sure that they are doing the right things to get this water settlement done so that we, the United States, can live up to our trust responsibilities.

We've got more acres of lease than we have developed which tells me that even if you support oil and gas jobs, which I believe we do, there's some improvements that could be made.

We've got about 4 years left to get $296 million out the door to the Blackfeet Tribe to fix their water settlement.

I cannot tell you the importance of this issue and I can't tell you how wore out this is and it's an engineering marvel.

There's a lot of crap being spread about her that's not correct.

I want to thank Senator Daines and others who have gotten on the bill that I have to stop the threshold doubling that was done by the ops management, that was done, by the way, on the very last day of the Trump administration.

It is not in Montana. I do not think Montana is an outlier. I think it is this way all over the country.