If you look at Maine, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Iowa, in Alaska, you know, it's the Indy voters, it is the middle of the electorate, and we are not talking to them when we are arguing with each other over whether or not to eliminate…

I’m a realist. But I feel good about where things stand.

Nuclear is, you know, it’s kind of back in vogue, especially the smaller modular reactors.

As soon as they’re ready to go, we’ll put it on the floor

At some point, we’ve got to get this done.

And I think at some point it becomes a decision of what can you get the votes to do.

try as we did on the House-passed version of it, we weren’t going to get there, and it was the small refineries issue.

I wouldn’t be where I am without Jim Abdnor.

We need to turn our fire on Democrats, not on each other.

I mean I can't defend anything that guy says or does.

I mean, I think that Ron's gonna work on it over the break, and his team, and we'll see what they come up with.

It seems to me sometimes I’m the only one who can count to 50 in this town.

By scrambling the Democrats, we’ll spread their resources thin, making it nearly impossible for them to flip the seats they need to take the majority.

It seems to me some days that I'm the only one here who can count to 50 in this town. But we don't have the votes to get rid of the filibuster. And we aren't flipping 10 Democrats to vote for the SAVE America Act."

It's still a work in progress.

There's still a lot of stuff that's piled up, trying to get through.

There’s some states that are going to be on the hook for a pretty big payment.

I think we have a bunch of stuff we have to finish and we’ll just stay until we finish it.

There's been enough uncertainty this last year, and, you know, unfortunately, I think through two government shutdowns that extended for a long period of time, it's better for everybody if there's predictability, certainty.

Unfortunately, I think after two government shutdowns that have extended for a long period of time, it’s better for everybody if there’s predictability, certainty, and just to take that issue off the table.

We need to ensure that they do not face a third.

That must be a different form of math

I would love to have some spending cuts associated with the debt limit debate.

Well, that's nice of him. I guess. I don't know, what do you say on that? That's a decision that's made by my colleagues.