John Thune: “I want to thank Chairman Moran and Ranking Member Blumenthal for holding this hearing.”

If you want to have a Republican Senate majority after the election — is not to have us turning fire on each other, but drawing contrasts with Democrats.

As soon as they’re ready to go, we’ll put it on the floor

There's clearly an interest among certain members of our conference for a higher level of military and defense.

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.