John Thune: “It has got to be about results, and ultimately, to me at least, when you look at the number of free trade agreements…”

I think we have a bunch of stuff we have to finish and we’ll just stay until we finish it.

If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have the votes to do that and so that’s not a — that’s just not a realistic option

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.

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.