John Thune: “I want to come back to the point I made earlier about the positions authorized by the PIPES Act.”

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.

Well, I think people are, there's voter fatigue with high gas prices and high diesel prices in my part of the world.

It's an economic frustration.

Odds are we plan on being here next week," said Thune.