John Thune: “I hope one of the takeaways today is the importance of forest management timber harvest and replanting to maintain…”

We’ve got to get a bill, if we want to pass a farm bill, that’s something that can pass the House and be signed into law by the president.

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.

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.