John Thune: “We have had the lowest overall unemployment rate in more than 50 years.”

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.

The president and his team and their resources need to be brought to bear on Texas because it’s not one that we can lose if we’re going to hang on to a Republican majority.

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.

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