Honorable Jon Tester
United States Senator, Montana, Democrat
Senator Tester was first elected to the United States Senate in 2006. He served as a member of the Montana Senate from 1999 to 2006, and as President of the Senate from 2005 to 2006. He sits on the following committees: Appropriations; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where he chairs the Economic Policy Subcommittee; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Indian Affairs; and Veterans’ Affairs. The following is from a June 25, 2012, Senate floor statement on S. 1940, to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program. I rise in support of a bill we will take up soon to reauthorize the…