John Thune: “It seems to me at least that is a fundamental--one of the issues, I think, that has come out of this...”

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

The election ought to be painting a contrast between us and the Democrats and not creating conflicts with fellow Republicans.

At some point, we’ve got to get this done.

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