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June 26, 2019| View More
Tester Statement on Passage of Emergency Border Supplemental Funding Bill
U.S. Senator Jon Tester, the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Senate's passage of the supplemental border appropriations bill, to provide funding for the humanitarian crisis at the southern border
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June 26, 2019| View More
Tester ‘Disappointed’ Trump Administration Opposes St. Mary’s Reinvestment Act
U.S. Senator Jon Tester expressed his disappointment today after the Trump Administration announced its opposition to his bipartisan St. Mary's Reinvestment Act, which would boost critical investments in the Milk River Infrastructure Project that thousands of Montana farmers rely on for access to reliable irrigation water.
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June 26, 2019| View More
Trump Signs Tester’s Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act into Law
President Donald Trump has signed U.S. Senator Jon Tester's bipartisan Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act into law
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June 25, 2019| View More
Tester Pushes Full, Permanent Funding for Land & Water Conservation Fund
The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources held a hearing today on the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), featuring experts from the U.S. Forest Service, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Department of the Interior testifying about the importance of this critical conservation initiative.
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June 25, 2019| View More
Tester Announces More than $8 Million to Upgrade 13 Airports Across Montana
As part of his ongoing effort to #ConnectMT, U.S. Senator Jon Tester today announced more than $8 million in federal funding to upgrade 13 airports across the state.
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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 …
