Jon Tester

Do you have the ability to stop these drugs coming in from the north?

The question is, is that, have you worked with any of those programs?

Are there enough of them?

We need to have a budget that will get us there.

We should be striving for zero, don't you think?

Your toxic agenda makes the United States more polluted and less safe.

If you attack the core mission of the role of EPA, you attack human health.

I think the spouses also play a critical role on this.

Is anything being done to take care of the time away from families, which would--this would require?

The new National Defense Strategy focuses heavily on preparing for the possibility of a near-peer threat.

These projects will not get done unless there is real money in them.

This is the lowest number that we have seen, that I have seen in 11.5 years that I have been here.

We are talking about living up to our trust responsibilities.

We need to address our $11.7 billion backlog in our parks.

These ecosystems aren't going to be around in 10 or 20 years.

We have to have an advocate in the administration--that is you--to be able to say, you know what? $8.1 million when it should be funded at $900 million.

I have had two tribes approach me about law enforcement. That means we have a problem largely with land-based tribes.

If you want to carry out our trust obligation to Indian Country, this is what we need.

I would just ask that this be on your priority list once you are confirmed. May I have that commitment?

We have a tribe called the Little Shell in Montana, the Little Shell of Chippewa Indians. For over a generation, they have been trying to receive recognition.

So, you're confident that the budget will reflect the realities, even with our removal from the JCPOA.

Are we making headway? Look, I mean, I don't--I'm not indicating that I think that this isn't a valiant effort. It is.

It's a complicated world. And I don't need to tell you that. And Afghanistan is incredibly complicated.

The delay was unacceptable and it reinforces the need to advance a new electronic health record (EHR) system.

I have been told that this bill is being used to get rid of people for political reasons.