John Thune: “For the balance of the votes, Mr. President, we are going to ask Members to stay in their seats, Senators to stay in…”

If you look at Maine, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Iowa, in Alaska, you know, it's the Indy voters, it is the middle of the electorate, and we are not talking to them when we are arguing with each other over whether or not to eliminate…

I mean I can't defend anything that guy says or does.

We have to win this race…we're going to need all the hands on deck.

There's still a lot of stuff that's piled up, trying to get through.