John Thune

I think the quickest way to end it is to just open everything up, and then everybody gets paid, and you’re not picking winners and losers or having to explain to this group why you open it up for this group.

I represent a beef-producing state.

He’s not going to pass.

Every day that passes, we got less time to fund the government.

I don’t know what there is to negotiate.

We're not going to negotiate on anything until Democrats stop holding government funding hostage.

It is finally time to move in the next 30 days on the secondary sanctions bill that would further reduce Russia's ability to sell oil to buyers like India, China, and others.

If anything was needed to demonstrate just how fundamentally uninterested Democrats are in supporting our troops and defending our country, just take a look at this vote.

I’m hoping to get it scheduled.

I think it’s a bill whose time has come.

I hope it doesn’t last through Thanksgiving, because that’s going to be a lot of harm to the American people and obviously a lot of harm to federal workers.

We are all about getting health insurance down, making it more affordable to more people.

At some point, Democrats have to take ‘yes’ for an answer.

I think the time is right.

I think we need to move.

Fifteen days into a government shutdown, Democrats show no sign that they're ready for it to end.

I remember when Democrats used to care about the effects of a government shutdown.

Let’s hope there are 5 more Democrats who will join us, because despite all of the good work we’ve done, there’s a lot more we could do if the Schumer Shutdown ends.

It’s time for them to get a backbone.

I fully support Senate committees getting to the bottom of this outrageous abuse of power and weaponization of the government.

Release the hostage. We’ll have that conversation.

We can’t make commitments or promises on the Covid subsidies because that’s not something that we can guarantee that there are the votes there to do.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to open up the government. If that fails, we’ll give them the weekend to think about it. We’ll come back, vote again Monday.

They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to keep, to open up the government.

Tom, let's come back to the basic premise: This is avoidable.