Sen. John Thune:

I think that there are several issues that have been — that are still being negotiated.

And one has to do with the fund that would be available for businesses to get access to loan capital to help provide liquidity for their businesses and what kind of conditions should be imposed there.

And I think there's pretty much broad agreement on that. There are — the Democrats have asked for grant funding for the airlines, and that's something that a lot of Republicans have issues with, but it's something that I think is being debated and negotiated. How do we keep the airlines in business?

We have advocated that be done through loans. There may be some combination of that being debated, but that's being resolved right now. There is also a question of how you get the dollars out to state and local governments. And there's differences about what the numbers ought to be, and I think, in some respects, on the policy.

But these are things that shouldn't take that long. And I think hospital numbers, it sounds like, have been fairly well-resolved, but there, again, we have had those numbers pretty well in hand now for several days.

The Democrats have added, you know, additional items for consideration and discussion for several days now. And that's something that we have tried to fight off. Anything that's not specifically related to this emergency, we can debate another day.

But they keep bringing new issues into the discussion.