John Thune: “For the most part our members buy into the idea that we are a team. If we’re going to succeed, we’ve got to succeed…”

There's clearly an interest among certain members of our conference for a higher level of military and defense.

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

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.

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.