.@ChuckGrassley's whip count, as relayed to me, @eschor and @LACaldwellDC on a noisy Senate train:

"I know that we don’t have a chance to get Heitkamp now and I thought we did. Maybe one or two Democrats got a chance? And I haven’t heard from four Republicans."

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 4, 2018