WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. John Thune issued the following press release:
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, in just a moment I'm going to move to proceed to a piece of legislation that we have voted on a number of times already, and that is a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security.
"This is now the [25th] day of the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
"And it follows the Democrat shutdown last fall that went for 43 days of virtually the entire government; this applies to Department of Homeland Security.
"And so here we are, 25 days into another government shutdown instigated by...