John Thune: “In my home state of South Dakota, more than 1,000 manufacturing firms support more than 41,000 jobs.”

It's a pretty simple measure, but an important way to ensure that members of Congress are held to the standards that America should be able to expect of their representatives.

It's an economic frustration.

There’s voter fatigue with high gas prices, and high diesel prices in my part of the world.

The only conclusion one can draw is that the Democrats have concluded that it is good politics for them not to allow the Republicans to ‘get a victory’ or the president to ‘get a victory’ in the middle of a political season.