John Thune

It’s time to move. Time to quit stalling. Time to vote. Time to fix this place.

If they aren't willing to do that, then we'll proceed with the other plan.

It's in their court.

We've got a crisis, and it's time to take steps to restore Senate precedent and codify in Senate rules what once was understood to be standard practice, and that is the Senate acting expeditiously on presidential nominations to allow a…

I was horrified to hear moments ago that conservative activist Charlie Kirk had died after being shot today while speaking at an event on the campus of Utah Valley University. Political violence, which this attack seems to be, has no place…

There’s a dispute about whether that’s really his signature, so it’s just going to be argued back and forth.

It’s time to take steps to restore Senate precedent and codify in Senate rules what once was understood to be standard practice — and that is the Senate acting expeditiously on presidential nominations to allow a president to get his team…

He’s got to take responsibility for, you know: We confirm these people. We go through a lot of work to get them confirmed. And they’re in office a month?

I hope that the process will continue in a bipartisan way as we move toward the September deadline.

I want to just congratulate Chair Collins, Vice Chair Murray, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the committee sub chairs this evening--I know, at least on our side, Chair Boozman, Chair Hoeven, Chair Mullin--in getting a…

Today I recognize Jorja Whempner, an intern in my Washington, DC, office, for all of the hard work she has done for me, my staff, and the State of South Dakota over the past several weeks. Jorja is a graduate of Summit High School in…

Today I recognize Noah Roth, an intern in my Washington, DC, office, for all of the hard work he has done for me, my staff, and the State of South Dakota over the past several weeks. Noah is a recent graduate of South Dakota State…

At some point, we may need to look at doing things differently on nominees generally, if the Democrats continue this path of obstruction that they're on right now.

There's certainly interest in looking at options that might enable us to break the logjam and expedite consideration of nominees in a way that, in the end, would benefit both parties when their party has the presidency.

I think that I share the president’s view.

I think we should do everything we can to be a helping hand. I know other countries, including the Israelis, are trying to address the food needs in Gaza.

It's going to take 60 to fund the government.

We’re looking at the future, not the past.

If their recent track record is any indication, they’re under a tremendous amount of pressure from that far left wing of the Democrat Party to shut the government down.

Ultimately, keeping the government funded is good for the country, and hopefully we will have bipartisan cooperation to do that.

This is a party struggling for an identity. This is a party that’s completely out of step with the mainstream of this country.

I think he [Schumer] probably thinks that it’s beneficial to their political base, the far left of the Democrat Party, and you can kind of see what’s happening up there in New York politics.

We’ll see what the future holds, but the goal right now is to get into the appropriations process.

I think more is always better.

The president and Attorney General Pam Bondi will make the right decisions, but I’m always a believer in transparency.