Jon Tester

I don't understand why it was cut, because we've got cities and towns across this country, rural and urban, I believe, that really depend on this.

I'm telling you the state of Montana right now is cutting programs because they don't have money.

I can tell you that if it's to sell off their assets, short of selling their roads for toll roads, which don't work in a rural state, any rural state--Montana absolutely not.

I just don't see where the logic is in expecting these states to come up with an 80 percent match.

Usually, when retaliation comes, it is focused on Ag products, and it's not a hit that family farmers can take right now.

Every Ag group in the state of Montana, without exception, is unbelievably concerned about retaliatory action.

We have to do better, folks. It's not working.

The FCC is wrong, they screwed up. We are getting screwed because they screwed up.

The problem is you look at the bars on this phone, when I go home, there are none.

It's 75 mile drive for me to Great Falls from my farm and I bet I don't have coverage 25 miles of that and yet that map is all red.

Will you commit to a pilot program for Montana on 5G?

I do not for a second think that Dodd-Frank was the only reason we are seeing consolidation in banking.

I think it is important that folks remember that the Federal Reserve and Chairman Powell have a number of tools in their toolbox when it comes to regulating our financial institutions well beyond that we even created in Dodd-Frank.

The legislative language in S. 2155 does not require any change to the IHC, correct?

The creation of the IHS was not included in Dodd-Frank, correct?

I fundamentally disagree with that. I think those views are a myth, and certainly not the text that is in S. 2155.

If you don't have the dough to do it, we can't hold you accountable.

If family farm agriculture goes away, this country changes, and not for the better.

It makes me want to dig Teddy Roosevelt up and bring him back to life.

Advance S. 1268, the Child Protection and Family Support Act introduced by Senators Daines (R-MT) and Peters (D-MI) to expand access to treatment services for vulnerable families while helping them stay together and heal.

God doesn't make places like this anymore. And the folks who call this land home have decided that they want to protect it for their kids and their grandkids.

This is the same kind of area that powers a $7 billion economy in the State of Montana and 74,000 jobs.

The Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act... protects 79,000 acres of wilderness for the next generation.

This investment has created and sustained more than 100 jobs and an additional $33 million in economic activity.

DC can learn a lot from what these people have done.