John Thune: “It’s a small but important step toward fiscal sanity that we all should be able to agree is long overdue.”

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

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 would love to have some spending cuts associated with the debt limit debate.

We need to ensure that they do not face a third.