John Thune: “I feel optimistic that we’ll get there in the end”

I hope this will encourage my colleagues to stop blocking reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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.

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

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.