Press Releases
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September 29, 2020| View More
Tester Slams VA Secretary for Continuing to Limit Montana Veteran Voices in the Disability Claims Process
Ranking Member: “The bottom line is VA’s role is to make it easier—not harder—for veterans to access earned benefits in a process that should be non-adversarial”
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September 28, 2020| View More
Tester Statement on VA’s Failure to Address Lengthy Process for Community Care Referrals
GAO report finds that VA implementation of Veterans Community Care Program needs improvements to ensure timely access to quality care for veterans
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September 28, 2020| View More
Tester’s Bipartisan Bill Will Enhance Flexibility for Federal Firefighters
Senator introduces legislation to allow federal firefighters to switch shifts without risking pay
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September 25, 2020| View More
Tester at Great Falls Celebration: ‘Today we celebrate a monumental victory in the battle to keep public lands in public hands’
Senator addresses public lands advocates at event honoring his central role in passing his Great American Outdoors Act, LWCF full funding
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September 25, 2020| View More
Tester Pushes Indian Health Service Director to Improve Tribal Behavioral Health By Boosting Telehealth Services
Senator: “If you’re on the wrong side of the digital divide, you know that telehealth doesn’t work all that great”
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September 24, 2020| View More
Senate Sends Tester-Backed Bill Expanding Vet Center Eligibility for Guardsmen to President’s Desk
Ranking Member: “We are now one step closer to providing critical counseling and support to the men and women of the Guard at VA facilities nationwide”
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September 24, 2020| View More
Tester Backs Legislation to Extend Key 2020 Census Deadlines
Bipartisan bill would help ensure accurate count by extending deadlines to report data, complete Census field operations
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September 23, 2020| View More
Tester Successfully Clears Major Veterans Priorities From Committee Hurdle
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee unanimously passes bill to expand health care access for veterans of the War on Terror, and improve benefits for veterans and survivors
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September 23, 2020| View More
BREAKING: Tester’s Groundbreaking Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Bill Heads to President’s Desk
Ranking Member’s top committee priority—connecting veterans with life-saving mental health care—unanimously passes House
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September 22, 2020| View More
Tester Spearheads Senate Call to Ensure his Landmark Agent Orange Exposure Bill is Included in Final Annual Defense Bill
Tester: “More and more veterans are dying every single day because this Administration refuses to do the right thing and pay for the cost of war”
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September 22, 2020| View More
Tester Requests VA Under Secretary of Memorial Affairs Restore Damaged Headstones ‘as quickly as possible’ in Billings Cemetery
Ranking Member: “They represent the final resting ground of those who honorably served our country”
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September 21, 2020| View More
Tester’s Savanna’s Act and Not Invisible Act Clear the U.S. House of Representatives
Senator: “This is big news for Montana Tribes, MMIW advocates, and victims of violence, and I’m proud to have helped shepherd these bills through Congress”
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September 21, 2020| View More
Tester Secures $305,000 for Drug Taskforces, Crime Prevention for Ten Montana Towns, Tribes
Senator: “This funding will provide much-needed backup to Montana’s local police and drug taskforces across our state”
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September 21, 2020| View More
Tester Secures $5.7 Million for Montana Crime Victims
Senator: “When folks have suffered because of the crimes of others, we have a responsibility to support them”
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September 19, 2020| View More
Tester Statement on Timeline for Confirmation of a New Supreme Court Nominee
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