John Thune: “We’ll probably set up some votes later in the week, but we’ll observe the Jewish holiday.”

I would love to have some spending cuts associated with the debt limit debate.

Well, that's nice of him. I guess. I don't know, what do you say on that? That's a decision that's made by my colleagues.

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…

If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have the votes to do that and so that’s not a — that’s just not a realistic option