John Thune: “I do think that the United States needs to stay in a lead role.”

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

We absolutely have to win that race so everybody is all in for Ken Paxton.

Unfortunately, I think after two government shutdowns that have extended for a long period of time, it’s better for everybody if there’s predictability, certainty, and just to take that issue off the table.

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.