John Thune actually said...

"I think that's going to be the only way, Madam Chair, that we're going to be able to force what should have happened in the first place to happen, and that is to go to ICAO and get this resolved."

"That means that, without reform, Social Security is going to exhaust its trust fund reserves by the year 2033."

"Social Security is the single largest category of the Federal budget, and the Social Security trustees recently released their annual report on the financial status of the program."

"Stopping the reforms, I think, would be counterproductive, inconsistent with fiscal responsibility, and unfair to unserved Americans who would benefit from us moving forward, including in South Dakota..."