Tester slams D.C. politics

In an interview Friday, Montana’s senior U.S. senator, Democrat Jon Tester, said partisanship still is clogging the hallways in the nation’s capital.

“It’s not good. It hasn’t been good for a while,” Tester said. “I put it on the amount of money being spent on these campaigns and the length of the campaign. …

“I think it’s going to change. I say this every time I talk to you and you ask the question and it hasn’t but I think it will,” he said.

He said he asked Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, before he died in 2012, if he’d ever seen Washington this partisan and Inouye said it was in the mid-1960...