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April 19, 2019| View More
BREAKING: Montana Hemp Farmers Can Now Purchase Seeds in Time for Growing Season After Tester Push
(Big Sandy, Mont.) - U.S. Senator Jon Tester delivered good news to Montana hemp farmers today, "There is no more red tape keeping farmers from growing hemp in Montana."
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April 18, 2019| View More
Tester Demands Testing on Brazilian Beef, Introduces Bill to Keep Americans Safe
(Big Sandy, Mont.) - Following Brazil's request to lift the ban on beef imports to the United States, U.S. Senator Jon Tester introduced a bill that would create a working group to assess if Brazilian beef and poultry are safe to eat.
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April 18, 2019| View More
More than $1 Million Awarded to Montana Treatment Courts to Combat Substance Abuse, Tester Announces
(Big Sandy, Mont.) - U.S. Senator Jon Tester announced that more than $1 million in grant funding has been awarded to Montana's treatment courts to combat substance abuse and strengthen treatment initiatives.
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April 17, 2019| View More
After Trump’s Attempt to Gut Amtrak Funding, Tester Fights to Strengthen Empire Builder Line
(Big Sandy, Mont.) - As the Senate gears up to craft next year's budget, U.S. Senator Jon Tester is leading a bipartisan effort to strengthen rural Amtrak service and hold the Trump Administration accountable for attempts to gut funding for the Empire Builder Line.
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April 17, 2019| View More
Thanks to Tester’s Efforts, Montana Farmers Can Now Grow Hemp this Season
(Big Sandy, Mont.) - After a weeks-long effort, U.S. Senator Jon Tester has successfully pushed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to allow Montana producers to import hemp seeds from Canada-just in time for spring planting.
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December 30, 2018| View More
Transcript: Sen. Jon Tester on "Face the Nation," December 30, 2018
And if the president wants to continue to take a campaign promise that he made, which was to have Mexico pay for a wall and say no the rules have changed now we're still going to build a wall but we're going to have the American taxpayer pay for it …
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December 28, 2018| View More
Gazette opinion: More secrecy in political spending
Thanks to Tester, the fight for transparency continues and the public has a champion for their right to know about election spending.
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December 24, 2018| View More
Tester Rankled By Utah Senator Blocking Public Lands, Little Shell Bills
"If you take a look at the Yellowstone Gateway Bill, this is the headwaters of the Yellowstone on the border of Yellowstone National Park, an absolutely critical area of land which he could not even pick out on a map," Tester said. "If you take a look at the Blue …
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December 19, 2018| View More
Congress Grills Head of V.A. Over New Health Care Law
Senator Jon Tester of Montana, the ranking Democrat on the Senate veterans committee, complained that Congress had been "left trying to figure out why the V.A. is taking things in a different direction than what Congress intended."
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December 14, 2018| View More
Tester retains seat as Ranking Member on Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs
"The military has changed over the last number of years and the VA has been slow to make those changes," Tester said Friday. "We've got a lot of women that serve in our military - far more than 30 or 40 years ago. The VA needs to take care of …
