JT in WT

Here's an article from today's Washington Times entitled "Thune aims to be 'reform-minded' doer in Senate."  Excerpt:

John Thune says he's ready to get the Republican agenda moving again in the Senate.
    The senator-elect -- who focused the nation's eyes on South Dakota as he defeated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle on Nov. 2 -- returns to Washington as a conservative former member of the House of Representatives.
    "I think this is a class that can really be a catalyst for change," the South Dakota Republican said in an interview with The Washington Times. "I hope we put together a record of accomplishment."
    Mr. Thune, 43, joins five other freshman Republican senators who also served in the House under aggressive House Republican leaders.
    As a senator, he said, he'd first like to help "jump-start" bills that got stuck in the Senate during the past few years -- the energy bill, the highway bill and medical-malpractice reform -- as well as several of President Bush's judicial nominees.