Jon Tester
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"Jon Tester" is the Senate seniority/senior United States Senate/United States Senator from Montana, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party.

Tester was first elected to the Senate in 2006, beating Republican incumbent Conrad Burns in one of the closest Senate races of that year. He won re-election in United States Senate election in Montana, 2012/2012 against Rep. Denny Rehberg in another close race. Tester previously served as the president of the Montana Senate and worked as a music teacher and farmer.

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From the beginning, this hasn't passed the smell test. This smells like a barnyard that needs a cleanup. It's time to clean up Washington, D.C., and we should start with Conrad Burns.

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

Here in the West, our word is our bond and a promise and a handshake mean something. This is President Bush's second nomination to replace a Western justice with one from the East Coast. I think we need more Western common sense and ethics on the Supreme Court, not less.

Between the 2005 special session, harvest and holidays, I had a very busy fourth quarter. Like in any race, I plan to sprint to the finish and have a strong showing this spring.

The minimum wage initiative speaks to whether we value work. Raising Montana's minimum wage to $6.15 an hour will allow more workers to support their families, more families to make ends meet and more Montanans to go to work instead of going on welfare. That saves taxpayers money.

Senator Burns should stand up to the big pharmaceutical companies and let Medicare negotiate drug prices to make them more affordable for our senior citizens. We need a program that works for seniors, not against them.