John Thune

In fact, we went back eight decades, back to the 1940s,

And there's only been one other time in 1976 where a Senate cast more votes than we did this year.

So it's been, yeah, it's been busy in many ways, sort of exhausting, I think, for a lot of folks.

But I would also say productive.

And, you know, a lot of times I don't equate volume like number of votes with actually accomplishment or getting things done.

But I think in this case.

It's been a very productive Senate, too, in terms of the things that we've accomplished.

Definitely.

Yeah, it does in some ways because we loaded that thing up with so much of our agenda.

In fact, the president's agenda for the most part was all accomplished in that one big beautiful bill where it's national security or the border, energy, tax policy.

You know, school choice has been a priority for the movement for a long time, newborn accounts.

childcare, the Farm Bill.

I mean, we basically built the Farm Bill and the One Big Beautiful Bill too.

And then it actually included the biggest spending reduction literally in history.

And something that if you're a fiscal conservative like I am, we're really proud to be able to point to.

But it does, it packs so much into one big piece of legislation.

And it was a, you know, just getting that across the finish line was a Herculean task.

If you'd spread that out, you know, these things over a long period of time, like we would normally do,

then it would look like a lot of stuff.

But where are the other things we're getting done, too?