John Thune: “In fact, key members of the Finance Committee, including Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator John Thune (R-SD)…”

I’m a realist. I don’t ever try and sugarcoat things. I think it’s a competitive environment right now.

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.

As soon as they’re ready to go, we’ll put it on the floor