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January 9, 2019| View More
Tester Demands President End Government Shutdown
U.S. Senator Jon Tester took to the Senate Floor today to tell folks the facts about President Trump's government shutdown.
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January 8, 2019| View More
Tester, Daines Reintroduce Bill Recognizing Little Shell
After nearly securing its passage in the last Congress, U.S. Senators Jon Tester and Steve Daines are re-introducing bipartisan legislation to grant the Little Shell Tribe of the Chippewa federal recognition.
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January 8, 2019| View More
Tester Turns Up Heat to Pass Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act
Tester is once again working with local businesses to reintroduce his bipartisan Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act, which will permanently protect 30,000 acres of the Custer Gallatin National Forest by withdrawing federal mineral rights and eliminating the ability for proposed mines to expand onto unclaimed public land.
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January 8, 2019| View More
Tester Demands Answers on Agencies' Response to Missing Native Woman
U.S. Senator Jon Tester is demanding answers from law enforcement agencies who again failed to respond properly in the face of a missing woman in Indian Country.
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January 4, 2019| View More
Ranking Member Tester Announces Veterans' Affairs Committee Democrats
"It's no secret there are challenges at the VA. But there are opportunities, too," Tester said. "Our Committee will continue to empower the VA to do right by our veterans, cut red tape that gets in the way of its mission, and hold the VA accountable when we have to. …
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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 …