WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. John Thune issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership:
Thune's remarks below (as delivered):
"Shamefully, we are on day 39 of the Democrat shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
"It is increasingly having effects across the country, as our airports and the TSA agents become more and more overrun.
"So it is time to end this. The time to end this is now.
"The Democrats have in front of them a proposal, with legislative text, that would allow us to get DHS back and opened up again, and it is essentially what the Democrats have been asking for.
"And so we're going to have an opportunity to vo...