Senator Jon Tester Discusses 117th Congress and Veterans Affairs Committee Work

06/04/21 • 26 min

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator Jon Tester talks about teh Department of Veterans Affairs, burn pits, and future legislation.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Senator Jon Tester talks about teh Department of Veterans Affairs, burn pits, and future legislation.

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Jon Tester00:00:00.000

This is job one for me on this committee is making sure that we have a process to deal with toxic exposure. We've got a bill that we're going to mark up next week. It's a bill that costs a lot of money because quite honestly, dealing with this issue is not a cheap thing. And it's a cost of war. Secretary shulkin knows that a Sunday when he was in the secretary's office. He was gonna, with our support, do a lot of presumptive with Agent Orange an