John Thune: “I think we need a Marshall plan on the ports right now.”

By scrambling the Democrats, we’ll spread their resources thin, making it nearly impossible for them to flip the seats they need to take the majority.

We’ve got to get a bill, if we want to pass a farm bill, that’s something that can pass the House and be signed into law by the president.

I’m a realist. I don’t ever try and sugarcoat things. I think it’s a competitive environment right now.

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.