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October 15, 2016| View More
Seven-Year Saga Ends in Celebration as County Opens New Agency on Aging
The jovial tunes from the 1930s Steinway Model baby grand piano resonated throughout the new Flathead County south campus building last week as crowd members enjoyed cake and conversation. Amid the celebration, the smile on Jane Seward’s face was visible from across the large room.
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October 13, 2016| View More
SENATOR SOUNDS INSIDER THREAT ALARM AFTER NSA CONTRACTOR ARREST
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., wants to know why a security clearance system that allowed Edward Snowden and Pvt. Chelsea Manning to steal classified information wasn’t sufficiently fixed before the latest National Security Agency rogue was able to do the same, according to a letter sent today to NSA Director Adm. …
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October 12, 2016| View More
Tester Delivers Good News for Veterans, Troops, Farmers & Ranchers
Senator Jon Tester held a press call on Thursday, Oct. 6th; Congress has recessed due to the pending election, leaving unresolved issues on the table such as the necessary appointment of a Supreme Court justice, Tester’s Veteran’s First Act, and a solution to wildfire funding, just to name a few.
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October 11, 2016| View More
Congress passes P&S Act updates
Campaigning for the upcoming elections this November may have Congress at a standstill right now, but the House of Representatives and the Senate were able to come to a consensus and pass H.R. 5883, the Technical and Clarifying Amendments to the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act of 2016.
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October 11, 2016| View More
Senator says more changes needed in health insurance
With Affordable Health Care Act’s premiums anticipated to be significantly higher in 2017, the country’s health insurance system is likely to experience changes regardless of which candidate becomes the next president.
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October 10, 2016| View More
Waters wash away divides as Montanans unite to protect rivers
DARK BUTTE BOAT CAMP — East Rosebud Creek lies about 200 miles and 40 years away from this landmark on the Missouri River.
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October 9, 2016| View More
Congress favors politics over doing its job
As a farmer and as your senator, I’ve learned there are two certainties in life: The rooster will crow at dawn, and Congress will abandon town during election season.
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October 6, 2016| View More
New Asbestos Bill Introduced to the U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) have introduced the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2016 to the Senate. The act would expedite a ban on asbestos imports, as well as both current and future uses of the hazardous substance.
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September 30, 2016| View More
VA funding bill approved
Congress approved and President Barack Obama signed a funding bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the next year as part of the budget deal to avoid a government shutdown.
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July 25, 2016| View More
Putting an issue to rest: Agreement allows for local control of Lincoln's historic cemetery
This process didn’t involve all of Congress but it did become an issue for Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said county commission Chairman Mike Murray.
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July 25, 2016| View More
Gazette opinion: Protect Park County's outdoor assets
Park County’s thriving economy is rooted in spectacular landscapes — the cold, clear river that tumbles out of Yellowstone National Park through a whitewater canyon and irrigated valley framed by the Absaroka and Gallatin mountains.
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July 22, 2016| View More
Delivering quality Health Care in rural Montana
My Rural Health Summit was the first of its kind, and we identified some of the barriers that are keeping rural families from accessing quality health care in their communities. Following the Summit, I turned the ideas raised there into multiple bills, including my Restoring Rural Residencies Act, which will allow …
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July 21, 2016| View More
Guest opinion: The right prescription for rural health care
Tester has emerged as a leader in the Senate on rural health issues, serving as the lead sponsor on a number of bills that would address misguided federal policies affecting rural health care providers. He responded to MHA members’ concerns about the shortage of physicians by introducing the Restoring Rural …
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July 21, 2016| View More
As renovations, improvements ramp up, Tester gets look at Billings airport's progress
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, took nearly an hour Wednesday morning for an airport tour led by Kevin Ploehn, Billings’ director of aviation and transit.
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July 21, 2016| View More
Crow Nation celebrates the certainty of a water compact
Tester said he proudly voted yes on both bills. “I was a freshman (state) senator in 1999,” Tester said. “Little did I know that 11 years later I’d be voting for the same settlement as a U.S. senator.”
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July 18, 2016| View More
Nurses lobby for protection against workplace violence
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, spoke at the event. He said he came as a concerned Montana senator and as the father of a nurse.
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July 18, 2016| View More
Gazette opinion: Key ingredient missing from Congressâ?? opioid solution
Fortunately, both Tester and Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., recognized that opioid painkiller misuse is a sourge in Montana.
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July 18, 2016| View More
War medals returned to Flathead veteran
Iraq war veteran Allen Storm and his family thought this day would never come. Storm’s original medals were stolen five years ago. At Friday’s ceremony Sen. Jon Tester awarded them to him once more.
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July 18, 2016| View More
Tester joins Columbia Falls in search for solutions for Weyerhaeuser workers
“We got to find out what the hell Weyerhaeuser’s doing, what the plans are for the site,” Tester said. “And quite frankly … how to get the workers trained without starving them to death.”
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July 18, 2016| View More
Tester notes benefits of living rural Montana
“Millennials are driven by quality of life,” Tester said. “There’s no better place to have a quality life than rural Montana and rural America. We have to make sure they know that.”
