John Thune: “We have cattle producers who produce the highest quality beef in the world, and they deserve to be able to participate…”

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.

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

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.

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