Tester wants action to clean budget problems

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., talked Thursday about several issues dealing with federal spending, and said he wants to see Congress take action to clean up the budget on both the spending and revenue sides.

"The problem is, we can't get both sides to sit down at the table and look at the expenditures and look at the tax code," he said from Washington during a telephone press conference.

Tester talked about several issues regarding federal spending and budgeting, from cuts proposed to SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, to revising the tax code; from proposed cuts to Essential Air Service in...