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Vote Comes Despite High Unemployment & Warnings From Job Creators That Higher Taxes Would “Devastate” Job Growth Just as he’s done at least 55 times during his career in Washington, Montana’s liberal Senator Jon Tester stood with President Obama today and voted for a massive tax hike on Montana small businesses, families, farmers and ranchers. “Liberal Jon Tester has never met a tax hike that he didn’t like and once again, standing behind President Obama was more important for Senator Tester than standing up for Montana farmers, ranchers and job creators,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Brian Walsh said today.  “If Montanans want to reverse course and restore fiscal responsibility in Washington, they can start by retiring Jon Tester in November.” Remarkably, Tester’s vote came just hours after President Obama’s own Treasury Secretary testified before a House Committee and admitted that the “economy is not growing fast enough and…

41 Straight Months Of High Unemployment, Yet Tester Stands By Democrats’ Reckless Spending Agenda Over three years ago, liberal Democrat Jon Tester was an outspoken advocate in Washington in support of a massive “stimulus” spending bill – paid for with billions of dollars borrowed from China – that he flatly predicted would put thousands of Montanans back to work. At the same time, Tester was rallying his liberal friends to support a massive new health care law which the Supreme Court confirmed last week represents a significant tax hike on Montana families and small businesses. And the federal debt has skyrocketed past $15 trillion in the wake of all this reckless spending, despite the fact that as a candidate in 2006, Tester routinely attacked Republicans for deficit spending and proclaimed his support for a “balanced budget.” Yet, since the Democrats have run Washington over the last four years, our country…

Tester Shows Once Again He’s More Focused On Saving His Own Job, Than Helping To Grow Montana Jobs Just four days after the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the national unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent in April and on the same day the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that “the long-term outlook for the national debt [is] increasingly dire,” Montana’s junior Senator Jon Tester cast his lot with America’s trial lawyers today ahead of his state’s small business owners. Tester joined with his liberal Democrat party leaders today in support of the so-called “Paycheck Fairness Act,” a bill that is opposed by virtually every major small business organization in the country – see below – and even the liberal Washington Post editorial board warned that it represents “a flawed approach to job bias…[and] could make employers vulnerable to attack for responding to market forces.” And as the…

***HYPOCRISY ALERT*** After Refusing To Even Introduce A Budget & Voting Against Four Separate Proposals, Tester Has The Audacity To Attack Rehberg  File this one under “You Can’t Make It Up” – as of today it has now been 1,066 days since Jon Tester and Senate Democrats last passed a budget in the U.S. Senate, while the federal debt has skyrocketed past $15 trillion.  And just as they did last year, Tester and his Democratic colleagues are refusing to even introduce a budget in the Senate this year. Yet, as Politico reports, Tester’s campaign had the audacity to put this out yesterday after the Republican-led House voted on a budget: Tester’s camp anticipated this vote, and charged that it’s irresponsible for Rehberg to be against both the GOP blueprint and the president’s budget.  “Congressman Rehberg just voted against seven different budget proposals–from the right, left and center–without offering any alternatives…

NRSC Launches New Web Video Two years ago today – with the help of liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester who was a fierce supporter of Barack Obama’s job-killing healthcare bill – President Barack Obama signed his $1.76 trillion job-killing healthcare bill into law.  The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has released a web video reminding Montanans of the broken promises from ObamaCare. Senator Tester promised the healthcare bill would reduce healthcare costs for millions of people, but since this legislation has been signed into law, costs have risen by 9 percent and the average premium has risen by $1,300.  Meanwhile, Tester and his fellow Democrats claimed the healthcare bill would cost $940 billion, but recently the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a report that found ObamaCare would actually cost $1.76 trillion. Click The Screenshot Below To View The NRSC’s New Web Video “Liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester promised Barack Obama’s…

WITH TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY APPROACHING, THE CONSEQUENCES OF JON TESTER’S HEALTHCARE LAW When liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester made President Barack Obama’s intrusive healthcare bill the law of the land, we knew it would force every Montanan to purchase health insurance, but now we are learning that it will give 15 unelected bureaucrats the power to decide which healthcare decisions are best for Montanans.    In fact, the American Hospital Association, along with over 70 medical groups warned Tester and his fellow Democrats that the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) could limit seniors’ access to Medicare and even the infrastructure for the entire healthcare system.  Additionally, it’s been reported that the IPAB’s true end game is to arbitrarily control the price of healthcare and decide what type of medical treatments patients in Montana can receive.  As the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board writes: Public opposition to the Affordable Care Act has…

Jon Tester’s Healthcare Law Is Killing Jobs In Montana When liberal U.S. Senator Jon Tester voted for President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, it included a slew of job-killing taxes that are crushing small businesses across Montana and our country.  The healthcare law also includes $500 billion in new taxes, including a harmful tax on the medical device community – that will hit over 175 medical device companies in Montana – and is estimated to kill 45,000 jobs nationwide.  Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has stated the healthcare law will kill 800,000 jobs nationwide. QUESTION: “In your estimation, the health care law would reduce employment by 800,000…” DOUGLAS ELMENDORF, CBO Director: “Yes… there would be a reduction of 800,000 workers.” (U.S. House Of Representatives, Budget Committee, Hearing, 2/10/11) QUESTION: “The last question is, it’s been argued and was argued here yesterday with the chairman, that the new health care law…

Republicans Point To Mile-Wide Gap Between Tester’s 2006 Rhetoric Versus 2012 Record Despite campaigning on the promise of fiscal responsibility, President Obama and Senate Democrats including Montana’s Jon Tester, have added an additional $4.7 trillion to the national debt in just the last three years – bringing America’s total debt to over $15.3 trillion.  Yet, instead of reversing course on their failed economic policies, President Obama and Jon Tester are doubling-down on their call for higher taxes, more Washington spending and an even bigger federal debt. The President today introduced his annual budget which includes $1.5 trillion in new taxes, much of which has previously been endorsed by Senator Tester, while ensuring a fourth straight year of trillion-dollar-plus deficits.  What’s worse – Senator Tester and his fellow Senate Democrats have said they do not even intend to pass a budget for the third straight year, clearly recognizing the political peril…