John Thune: “I think he [Schumer] probably thinks that it’s beneficial to their political base, the far left of the Democrat Party…”

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.

If you want to have a Republican Senate majority after the election — is not to have us turning fire on each other, but drawing contrasts with Democrats.

If he can change the facts and start moving some of those senators from nos to yeses, then we’ll have a different conversation. It’s just the reality.

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