John Thune: “For the life of me, I do not know why we have not been able to make any headway on extending TPA and moving forward with…”

There’s voter fatigue with high gas prices, and high diesel prices in my part of the world.

I just think, if you’re looking at issues that we want to get at the heart of what everybody seems to be saying, the Democrats and others are saying, are important, we're concerned about.

It's an economic frustration.

I like the message. But it shouldn’t be paid for with taxpayer dollars.