John Thune: “I think it would be a benefit to all of us to hear, specifically, from people who I consider to be experts.”

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

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…

There’s some states that are going to be on the hook for a pretty big payment.

I’m a realist. But I feel good about where things stand.