Thune: Senate Republicans Are on a Roll

Majority Leader | Press Release | Press Releases | THE NE...Skip to primary navigation Skip to content×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER THUNE×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER THUNExxsearchxMENUFacebookXInstagramFacebookXInstagramVisit Leader Thune's South Dakota Site Here THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER THUNExxsearchxMENUHomeTHE NEWSROOMPress Releases03.24.25Thune: Senate Republicans Are on a Roll“[W]e have been hard at work on legislation to extend the tax relief we passed during President Trump’s first term and to make a transformational investment in our border and national security.” Click here to watch the video.WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:Thune’s remarks below (as delivered):“Mr. President, we recently completed a 10-week session – the Senate’s longest in-session stretch in 15 years.“It was a very busy 10 weeks filled with substantial results:“We confirmed nearly the president’s entire Cabinet – the fastest pace since the administration of George W. Bush.                                “We laid the groundwork for a transformational investment in border security and national defense.“We continued to develop legislation to extend the tax relief we put in place for American families in President Trump’s first term.“We passed legislation to ensure that illegal aliens arrested for various crimes are detained instead of being returned to America’s streets.“We considered other bills that Democrats blocked – bills to achieve such commonsense goals as protecting Americans and our allies from illegitimate targeting by the International Criminal Court, and ensuring that athletic opportunities for women and girls are not taken away from them by biological males.“And in our final week of session we passed the HALT Fentanyl Act – legislation to give law enforcement a critical tool to go after the people trafficking fentanyl in our country.“We also passed legislation to fund the government – by a narrow margin.“Ten Democrats voted to allow us to proceed to the bill and fund the government.“The rest preferred to filibuster the bill and shut down the government.“It was a double dose of Democrat hypocrisy.“Democrats who had campaigned to abolish the filibuster enthusiastically embraced it now that it served their purposes.“And Democrats who had decried the evils of government shutdowns now embraced shutting down the government.“One senator, for example, who just last March called shutdowns, and I quote, ‘as devastating as they are stupid,’ voted for a shutdown 10 days ago. “Another who last February noted that, and I quote again, ‘Even a partial shutdown could disrupt supply chains, hurt small businesses, risk travel delays, and increase food prices for millions of Americans’ – that Democrat also voted to shut down the government.“Democrats are changing their positions so abruptly, it could give you whiplash.“The only thing that doesn’t look likely to change is Democrats’ willingness to change their principles when it suits their political purposes.“Mr. President, a new period of session begins today, and I hope that Democrats will manage to move past the fact that they weren’t able to shut down the government.“But whether they accept their defeat or decide to throw a tantrum about it, we’re going to continue to do the job that we were elected and sent here to do.“In the next three weeks, we’ll continue to build out the president’s administration by voting on more of his nominees.“With the Cabinet almost entirely confirmed, we’ll be turning to undersecretaries and deputy secretaries, as well as ambassadors.“And like the White House, this work period we will be focused on rolling back burdensome government regulations, in our case through the Congressional Review Act resolutions.“This week we’ll send the president Senator Cruz’s resolution to roll back the Biden administration’s digital asset broker rule, which puts at risk the privacy and security of tens of millions of Americans who trade digital assets.“We’ll also look to take up Senator Tim Scott’s overdraft fee resolution overturning a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that threatens access to credit for individuals and small businesses.  “And we will take up a number of other CRA resolutions this work period.“Finally, Mr. President, as I said, we have been hard at work on legislation to extend the tax relief we passed during President Trump’s first term and to make a transformational investment in our border and national security.“And those efforts will accelerate over the next three weeks.“Confirming nominations, lifting burdensome regulations, laying the groundwork for tax and border security legislation…“Mr. President, I look forward to another busy work period ahead.”Related Issues: Border Security, Senate Democrats, Nominations, Filibuster, Taxes, Education, EconomyPrintEmailTweetPreviousTHE NEWSROOMSENATE RESOURCESABOUT LEADER THUNEFacebookXInstagram