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June 9, 2015| View More
VA disability payments to increase under Tester legislation
Tester, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, joined eight Senate Republicans and several Democrats on Monday to introduce legislation to increase disability benefits paid to veterans.
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June 8, 2015| View More
Tester brings Head Start grant, promises help for veterans
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., brought federal largesse to Anaconda Friday in the form of a grant for the local Head Start program - and also promised improvements to veterans' services.
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June 8, 2015| View More
Gazette opinion: Federal testing law flunks common-sense test
In April, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., a former high school music teacher, introduced a bill to replace the No Child Left Behind Act testing mandate with fewer federal tests.
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June 8, 2015| View More
Silver Star finally pinned on Florence Vietnam vet
Alone in the jungle, Waddill gathered up the team's rifles and radios and hoped against hope the helicopter would return for him before nightfall. It did. Waddill was dragged through heavy underbrush for hundreds of yards, and he finally climbed into the chopper bloodied and injured. But he was alive …
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May 28, 2015| View More
Tester announces language immersion bill at Fort Peck
During a visit to the Fort Peck Tribes' Language and Culture Department on Wednesday, Sen. Jon Tester announced the reintroduction of a language immersion bill to preserve endangered Native languages throughout Indian Country.
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May 28, 2015| View More
Sen. Tester Talks Infrastructure In Eastern Montana
Senator Jon Tester met with local officials in Sidney Thursday to talk about the Bakken-area boom town's strained roads, water and sewer systems.
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May 21, 2015| View More
On Special Assignment: Montana's nursing shortage
Recently, U.S. Senator Jon Tester accompanied new VA Secretary Bob McDonald on a tour of VA Montana. During that visit, Tester got the idea to push for more federal funding to help the nursing shortage. He sent a letter to leaders on the Senate Health & Human Services Appropriations …
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May 20, 2015| View More
Advocates: WTO ruling shows Obama's trade pact will hurt U.S. consumers
Montana's Democratic Sen. Jon Tester said the World Trade Organization's "horrible ruling" against meat labels this week undermines consumers' right to know where their food comes from when they're shopping the meat counter.
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May 14, 2015| View More
Gazette opinion: Fuelish indecision: Congress slows state road work
Tester said that 40 percent of Montana roads are rated poor or mediocre; adding that highway safety upgrades save lives and directly support 11,000 Montana jobs. "China will spend more than $400 billion on transportation infrastructure this year," Tester said. "This is about eight times more that the U.S. will …
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May 14, 2015| View More
Tester optimistic banking reform can move forward
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, a member of the committee, said he hasn't been treated like that since third grade. He told the Chronicle on Wednesday that unleashing Wall Street was a non-starter but that it was time for the "regulatory pendulum to come back to the middle."
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May 8, 2015| View More
Senators press new postmaster general on troubled rural mail service
"You mail a letter in Helena," said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who attended Tuesday's meeting, "and it really has to go 90 miles out of the way to get to a destination a few blocks away. It gets to be a death spiral."
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May 4, 2015| View More
MISSOULIAN EDITORIAL: Focus should be on teaching, not testing
Tester, who is a former public school teacher himself, believes students are spending too much class time preparing for and taking tests, and that the undue emphasis on test results is driving too many teachers to "teach to the test."
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May 1, 2015| View More
Lawmakers worry as the nation's largest conservation program shrinks
But now that bubble seems to have deflated. Grain prices are declining to the lowest point in eight years. Congressmen and women from agriculture states are asking the USDA to help farmers find their way back to the nation's largest private lands conservation program.
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April 29, 2015| View More
Tester encouraged by bipartisanship work
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., discussed recent signs of bipartisanship in Washington and how they are paying off for Montanans in the form of Medicare payments and increased law enforcement.
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April 29, 2015| View More
Tester, Daines Seek Approval of Blackfeet Water Agreement
U.S. Sens. Jon Tester and Steve Daines are asking Congress to approve a water rights settlement with the Blackfeet tribe that's been in the works for more than three decades.
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April 28, 2015| View More
Federal timber funding restored for counties
The Senate passed legislation to extend SRS funding for an additional year in September 2013, but Congress failed to reauthorize the act and it expired in September 2014.
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April 24, 2015| View More
The Problem of Homelessness Among Montana Veterans
U.S Senator Jon Tester recently introduced legislation that would re-authorize an existing program that provides funding to state and local entities to assist homeless veterans.
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April 22, 2015| View More
Tester wants to overhaul "No Child Left Behind"
U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) has introduced legislation aimed at reforming the No Child Left Behind law. NCLB, which went into effect in 2002, requires yearly language arts and math testing of public school students in grades three through eight, and again in high school.
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April 13, 2015| View More
Montana Space Grant Consortium launches high-altitude balloon in Big Sandy
Student ranging from middle school to college were in Big Sandy at the farm of U.S. Senator Jon …
