John Thune

I’m hoping the White House will become engaged. Texas is an incredibly expensive state and obviously one that we need, that we’ve got to hold if we’re going to keep the United States Senate.

I’ve been very clear about the prospects for the SAVE America Act.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent when the Senate adjourns on Thursday, Sept. 10, it stand adjourned until 3 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 14.

When the Senate completes its business on Aug. 8, to meet for pro forma sessions only at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. 8 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026.

So, I'd turn my fire on the Democrats, attack them for being against something that is fundamentally straightforward, simple to understand for the American people, and realize that the best way to get the SAVE Act across the finish line is…

If you look at Maine, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Iowa, in Alaska, you know, it's the Indy voters, it is the middle of the electorate, and we are not talking to them when we are arguing with each other over whether or not to eliminate…

Nuclear is, you know, it’s kind of back in vogue, especially the smaller modular reactors.

I’m a realist. But I feel good about where things stand.

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

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.

And I think at some point it becomes a decision of what can you get the votes to do.

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

If you want to have a Republican Senate majority after the election — is not to have us turning fire on each other, but drawing contrasts with Democrats.

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

We need to turn our fire on Democrats, not on each other.

I wouldn’t be where I am without Jim Abdnor.

I mean I can't defend anything that guy says or does.

I mean, I think that Ron's gonna work on it over the break, and his team, and we'll see what they come up with.

It seems to me sometimes I’m the only one who can count to 50 in this town.

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.

It seems to me some days that I'm the only one here who can count to 50 in this town. But we don't have the votes to get rid of the filibuster. And we aren't flipping 10 Democrats to vote for the SAVE America Act.

It's still a work in progress.

There's still a lot of stuff that's piled up, trying to get through.

We’ve got to get a bill, if we want to pass a farm bill, that’s something that can pass the House and be signed into law by the president.

There’s some states that are going to be on the hook for a pretty big payment.