John Thune: “We need 50 votes to get anything done here in the Senate.”

“How much more difficult is that make your job as leader? How much more difficult in the Senate in light of that? Well, we need, as you know, We need 50 votes to get anything done here in the Senate. And we have Republican senators who understand that we succeed as a team, we fail as a team.” (05:08–05:11)

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