John Thune: “I strongly encourage the administration to fill this role as soon as possible.”

I’m hoping the White House will become engaged. Texas is an incredibly expensive state and obviously one that we need, that we’ve got to hold if we’re going to keep the United States Senate.

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.

It seems to me some days that I'm the only one here who can count to 50 in this town. But we don't have the votes to get rid of the filibuster. And we aren't flipping 10 Democrats to vote for the SAVE America Act.

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