The U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee unanimously passed legislation Wednesday co-sponsored by Chairman Jon Tester to offer post-9/11 combat-veterans access to Department of Veterans Affairs health care. During the hearing Senator Tester pointed out how the Health Care for Burn Pit Veterans Act will address additional effects of toxic exp...
Senator Tester Votes Against Federal Vaccine Mandate
A bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate voted yesterday to oppose the OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration) emergency temporary standard mandating coronavirus vaccines for private businesses with more than 100 employees. Montana Senator Jon Tester was one two Democratic votes to oppose the mandate and recently explained what le...
Missoulian Tracy Stone-Manning Confirmed As BLM Director
The U.S. Senate confirmed Montana’s Tracy-Stone Manning as the next Director of the Bureau of Land Management after a sustained push by Senator Jon Tester on behalf of her nomination who said this on the floor of the Senate before the vote. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/10-01_537.mp3
Senator Tester Details How Montana’s Broadband Funding Will Be Distributed
There’s been a lot of talk about the potentially historic investment in Montana’s broadband infrastructure through the bipartisan package passed by the Senate but with so much federal money coming into the state it also has many wondering how it will be allocated. Senator Jon Tester, one of the bill’s negotiators, recently explained how. https...
Senator Tester Details Potential Improvements To Water Infrastructure
Included in the $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the U.S. Senate last week is 8.3 billion dollars of funding for Western water projects that farmers, water providers and environmentalists say are badly needed across the parched region. Across the Western states, around one billion dollars would go towards water storage, water recycl...
Montana Senators Split Over Infrastructure Bill
A trillion dollar infrastructure bill that passed the Senate Tuesday is expected to bring more than $3 billion in direct investment to Montana. It still faces a vote in the House but Democratic Senator Jon Tester part of a bipartisan group of 10 senators who crafted the bill was optimistic and issued this statement after it was passed. 19 Repu...
Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Negotiated By Tester Passes Through U.S. Senate
Today, the U.S. Senate passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill fostered by five Republican and five Democratic Senators, including Montana’s Jon Tester, and it will now go the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote. The bill would invest billions of dollars into Montana infrastructure by replacing and repairing bridges and highways, expand...
Senator Tester On Compromising For Infrastructure Package
President Joe Biden on Sunday announced he will sign the current infrastructure proposal even without the spending plan he originally said must be included which featured many Democratic priorities. Jon Tester, one of the ten senator’s behind the initial proposal, was on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday where he discussed what may still need to be...
Senator Daines Weighs In On For The People Act Vote
About 100 supporters of the For the People Act rallied and marched around the State Capitol Monday to draw attention to the law that expands voting rights which the U.S. Senate will vote on this week. According to the Associated Press the bill would restrict partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts strike down hurdles to voting and ...
Senator Daines Voices Montana Concerns With IRS
The Montana Constitution states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Tuesday the Montana Senate endorsed a bill that would ask voters to change that to define person as all members of mankind at any stage of development beginning at the stage of fertilization or conception regardless of age ...