Senator Jon Tester

With more U.S. troops returning from the battlefield, Senator Jon Tester is striving to improve VA mental health care and eliminate barriers to treatment.

Winter has arrived in Montana and Senator Jon Tester is pushing the Senate not to turn its back on montana’s families and seniors, leaving them out in the cold. Tester is part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers urging senate leaders to make sure that low-income families and seniors receive heating assistance as they struggle with energy prices.

The U.S. Senate passed legislation containing permanent provisions by U.S. Senator Jon Tester to prevent the U.S. Justice Department from establishing a national gun registry and to prohibit it from retaining information gained through instant background checks about legal gun purchases.

Senator Jon Tester announced today that more help is on the way for homeless veterans in Montana and across the nation. The Senate late Thursday voted to add 11,000 new housing vouchers to the popular Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) program. The initiative works with local housing and support groups to provide eligible homeless veterans with services that aid recovery from physical and mental health conditions resulting from homelessness.

Congressman Denny Rehberg and Senator Jon Tester co-sponsored a measure to prevent taxpayer funded bonuses for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The government sponsored enterprises recently approved nearly $13 million in compensation for their top executives after taking $141 billion in taxpayer-funded bailout funds...

The tax credit for businesses to hire veterans cleared final passage in the House of Representatives.

Senator Jon Tester is criticizing efforts to slash student financial aid.Tester says that Pell Grants are the key to good jobs and wiping them out would "cut our economy down". Tester spoke on the floor of the Senate about the importance of access to higher education, today.

With overwhelming bipartisan support, Senator Jon Tester’s veterans’ jobs bill passed the Senate

With strong bipartisan support, a Senate panel yesterday, passed a measure by Senator Jon Tester to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from closing rural post offices until it establishes clear criteria for determining whether a post office should be closed.

Senator Jon Tester has unveiled a bill to put more veterans back to work, the Vow to Hire Heroes Act. The bill combines many popular, bipartisan ideas to put veterans back to work.