John Thune: “I was for TPP. I think being engaged in Asia and these markets around the world is really, really important.”

There's been enough uncertainty this last year, and, you know, unfortunately, I think through two government shutdowns that extended for a long period of time, it's better for everybody if there's predictability, certainty.

The president and his team and their resources need to be brought to bear on Texas because it’s not one that we can lose if we’re going to hang on to a Republican majority.

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 have to win this race…we're going to need all the hands on deck.