Montana farmer Jon Tester is so proud of Montana beef, he butchers it himself and takes it with him on his 2,000-mile commute to work.
“We expect to know what our elected officials are up to and who they are raising money from,” Tester said. If enacted, Tester’s bill could be implemented almost immediately and at almost no cost.
Tester praised the bill for protecting rural post offices. Amendments included in the bill would place a one-year moratorium on closing post offices.
“This is too important, as are a lot of other things, to turn into a political tool,” Tester said.
The Violence Against Women Act provides assistance to victims and gives Montanans more tools in the fight against domestic violence and sexual assault.
“The bad (amendments) are getting beat and the ones that are important to rural Montana are passing,” Tester said.
Tester spoke out against a doubling of the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford loans from the current 3.5 percent to 6.8 percent that is scheduled to happen July 1.
In tearful testimony, 27-year-old Casey Elder of Billings, a veteran of the war in Iraq and Purple Heart recipient, told of her frustration in getting the care she needs.
Rehberg’s belief that companies should be able to charge women more for health insurance dates back to his multiple attempts to repeal Montana’s non-gender insurance law as a state representative in the 1980s.
Jon Tester had another full weekend in Montana, where he listened to and addressed issues important to women, hunters and anglers, veterans and hundreds of campaign supporters.