John Thune: “I believe it was achievable,” he said, reminding the audience that there is a more complicated process in the Senate.”

There’s some states that are going to be on the hook for a pretty big payment.

I’m hoping the White House will become engaged. Texas is an incredibly expensive state and obviously one that we need, that we’ve got to hold if we’re going to keep the United States Senate.

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.

We need to ensure that they do not face a third.