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Jon Tester: “The postal service is very, very important, I think, to the…”

Featuring: Jon Tester, Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Montana

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Senator Tester talks Montana roots, agriculture, and the Postal Service on The Last Word

Published | Video Starts at 03:53

One of them, for example, is postal service. I can't remember the last time I heard the postal service come up for a senator in a senate debate. Well, look, The postal service is very, very important, I think, to the whole country, but it's particularly important to rural America. It's particularly important to Montana. We've got a postmaster general who wants to basically ruin our postal service, in my opinion, and make it so you can't depend on the postal service to get important things like prescription drugs and farm parts and everything else. (03:53–03:59)

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