John Thune: “They are going to be better attuned to the individual programs.”

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.

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.

At some point, we’ve got to get this done.

I’m a realist. I don’t ever try and sugarcoat things. I think it’s a competitive environment right now.