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May 11, 2016| View More
Take 5: Sen. Jon Tester How a Montana boy became a Washington Nationals fan
"My grandfather homesteaded [the farm] over 100 years ago. ... We took it over in 1978 when I graduated from college. Before that, buffalo owned it and when I was a kid, there used to be buffalo bones all over."
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May 7, 2016| View More
Tester, Daines Rally Bipartisan Support for Rural County Funding Program
On April 29, Sens. Jon Tester and Steve Daines wrote a letter with 30 other lawmakers to Senate leaders Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid encouraging them to reauthorize the SRS program.
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May 6, 2016| View More
Interior Secretary Visits Browning to ‘Cement Gains’ in Indian Country
During the ceremony, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester announced that he was posthumously nominating Cobell for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award that can be bestowed to a civilian.
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May 5, 2016| View More
Playing by the rules shouldn’t lead to punishment
I have introduced bipartisan legislation with Republican Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota to give states the authority to establish some rules of the road, to protect consumers, and to rein in these outrageous medical costs.
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May 4, 2016| View More
Air ambulance charges can reach $100,000
Reducing excessive air ambulance charges is a goal of Sen. Jon Tester's. He is proposing legislation which would give states the authority to establish some rules for how much healthcare companies can charge their customers.
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May 4, 2016| View More
Interior Secretary Jewell touts conservation fund in Montana
Jewell was joined by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, who helped push the reauthorization through the Senate.
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May 4, 2016| View More
Interior secretary visits Montana: Sally Jewell calls for holistic land management, praises land buy-back
"It's important, quite frankly, because we'd have ecosystems across this great country that wouldn't be preserved, and quite frankly as we look forward to the next 10 or 15 years, those ecosystems will not be here unless we have the types of public lands that LWCF is committed to," (Tester) …
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May 4, 2016| View More
Elouise Cobell nominated for Medal of Freedom
Montana Sen.r Jon Tester announced his nomination of Cobell during a signing ceremony Tuesday in Browning, where U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell formalized the allocation of $107 million to buy back fractionalized lands within the Blackfeet Reservation.
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May 4, 2016| View More
Great Falls facility name changed to honor Medal of Honor recipients
The Senate bill was sponsored by Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Steve Daines was a co-sponsor. Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke sponsored the House bill.
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May 3, 2016| View More
Interior secretary touts public lands, funding in Montana
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., hosted Jewell, and they took off to visit Browning following speeches at Devil's Elbow at Hauser Lake, a Bureau of Land Management campground that has benefitted from LWCF money in the past.
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May 3, 2016| View More
U.S. Secretary of the Interior visits Hauser Lake and Browning
Jewell, accompanied by U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), then traveled to Browning to discuss the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. The Buy-Back Program serves as the land consolidation component of the Cobell settlement, which provided $1.9 billion to purchase fractional interests in trust or restricted land from willing sellers at …
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May 3, 2016| View More
Gazette opinion: Remedies for what ails VA Montana health care
The Veterans First Act is about accountability, agreed Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., a member of the committee. But Tester emphasized what the legislation aims to do to directly improve veterans care. The bipartisan bill includes his proposed remedies for the Veterans Choice program.
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May 3, 2016| View More
Jewell announces $107M for Blackfeet land buy-back
Twenty years after Blackfeet social activist Elouise Cobell filed a historic lawsuit demanding the federal government account for generations of exploitation and mismanagement of tribal land across the United States, Cobell's own people stand ready to receive their compensation.
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April 15, 2016| View More
GAO: USDA needs oversight of GE crops
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department needs to do more to improve oversight and understand the impact from the accidental mixing of genetically engineered crops with other plants, the Government Accountability Office has concluded.
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April 15, 2016| View More
Senators tout Montana benefits of coming energy bills
Two bills up for votes in the U.S. Senate next week contain a lot of money for Montana's power production sector.
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April 15, 2016| View More
Forest Service backs off trail maintenance cuts
The U.S. Forest Service is walking back funding cuts for trail maintenance in its northern region - preventing what would have been a cut of about $1 million across national forests in Montana.
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April 15, 2016| View More
Senator Tester makes stop at Great Falls International Airport
Senator Jon Tester made a stop in Great Falls to discuss an upcoming vote in the U.S. Senate that could have impacts here at home.
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April 14, 2016| View More
Daines, Tester Criticize Forest Service Over Wildfire Funding, Trail Maintenance: Agency proposing 30 percent reduction in trail funding in Region One over next three years
As the U.S. Forest Service prepares for the looming wildfire season, Montana's senators are calling for reforms to the agency's forest and trail management.
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April 14, 2016| View More
Tester works to increase tribal jurisdiction
Native American tribes could soon have greater criminal jurisdiction in cases where nontribal members are suspected of committing certain crimes on Indian reservations.
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April 11, 2016| View More
The Obama Administration Is Struggling to Reform the Security Clearance Process
The Obama administration has blown past its own deadlines for reforming the security clearance process, falling short on changes ranging from standardizing investigations to rooting out internal threats.
