Mike Rounds: “We are aware of the sensitivities of using a rescissions package versus the appropriations process.”

We have to stay focused on the fact that we know that gas prices are too high, and diesel is way too high.

The suggestion that they bring in 300,000 metric tons of beef is not a popular program. They feel just like the administration pulled the rug right out from underneath a lot of our farmers and ranchers.

What we can and should do right now is explore suspending the federal gas tax through the end of the year to give Americans immediate relief.

We do not have a line-item veto available to the president, [and] this is almost the same thing.