John Thune: “I hope that's not necessary. We've had conversations, productive conversations, on both sides of the aisle on a funding…”

Odds are we plan on being here next week," said Thune.

I don’t try and predict things like that.

Well, I think people are, there's voter fatigue with high gas prices and high diesel prices in my part of the world.

That’s something we’re going to find out about pretty soon, whether the Democrats are willing to take yes for an answer on that, but it has consequences for all the things we’re talking about today, most importantly energy prices.