尽管一些议员对上周毁灭性的中期选举失利感到沮丧和不满，参议院共和党领导层既没有出现人员大换血，也没有大规模清洗。
There was neither an exodus nor a mass housecleaning in the Senate GOP leadership, despite frustration and rumblings of discontent among some lawmakers reeling from last week’s devastating midterm losses.
参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党参议员约翰·桑恩在旧参议院厅的闭门会议上，连任共和党领袖一职。议员们在此商讨了他们剩余几周执政期及之后的方向。
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., secured another term as the top Republican behind the closed doors of the Old Senate Chamber, where lawmakers charted their course for their few remaining weeks in power and beyond.
桑恩及其大部分领导团队成员迅速当选，该团队现包括俄亥俄州共和党参议员伯尼·莫雷诺。此前，一群共和党人试图推迟领导层选举，但未能得逞。不过，这并非毫无争议。闭门会谈持续了七个多小时。
Thune, along with the bulk of his leadership team, which now includes Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, were swiftly elected after a group of Republicans failed to delay the leadership elections. It wasn't without a fight, though, with conversations behind closed doors dragging on for over seven hours.
威斯康星州共和党参议员罗恩·约翰逊发起了推迟选举的动议。他的尝试在旧参议院厅以31票对15票的表决结果中失败，该表决是关于是否继续进行预定选举。投票失败后，约翰逊没有留下。
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., led the charge to delay, and didn't stick around after his attempts to do so failed on a 31 to 15 vote in the Old Senate Chamber to proceed with the scheduled election. Johnson and others wanted to have a deep conversation about what had happened during the midterm elections, and a roadmap on what Republican leadership candidates could accomplish with the little time they had left in power.
约翰逊等人希望就中期选举中发生的事情进行深入讨论，并制定一份路线图，说明共和党领导层候选人在剩余执政时间内能取得什么成就。但没有任何议员反对参选领导层职位的人。
But there was no opposition to any of the lawmakers running for leadership.
“这从来都不是针对约翰·桑恩，”约翰逊说。“我认为他受到了我们基本盘的非常不公正的攻击，你知道，我不同意那种做法。我不同意的是立即举行选举，不给任何人真正挑战任何领导职位的机会。”周一，桑恩坚称自己仍将参选，但对结果不确定。
"This has never been anything against John Thune," Johnson said. "I think he has been very unfairly attacked, you know, by our base, and I don't agree with that. What I didn't agree with was holding the election right away, giving nobody an opportunity to really challenge any leadership position." On Monday, Thune was adamant that he’d still run but was unsure of the outcome.
“这就是希望，”桑恩在被问及是否获得参议院共和党支持时说。“在投票之前，你永远不知道。”投票前，约翰逊和少数几人认为领导层应该进行调整，但没有提出桑恩的替代人选。
"That's the hope," Thune said when asked if he had the Senate GOP’s support. "You never know right until they vote." Before the vote, Johnson and a handful of others believed there should be a shakeup in leadership, but didn’t offer an alternative to Thune.
“在遭遇惊人失败之后，你不可能照常继续下去，”约翰逊说。“我是说，那种失败要求改变。”
"After the stunning defeat, you just can't continue on business as usual," Johnson said. "I mean, that kind of defeat demands change."
当被问及是否有意参选时，约翰逊说：“这正是问题的一部分。你想要吗？”
When asked if he’d be interested in running, Johnson said, "That’s part of the problem. Would you want it?"
“我认为有不少有才华的人，”约翰逊说。“再说一遍，我不是——至少，我们需要看到领导团队在未来的战略是什么，你不可能在遭遇那样的失败后，就强行推进选举，然后说，‘好吧，让我们就那样通过鼓掌选出那个领导团队。’”佛罗里达州共和党参议员里克·斯科特此前两次竞选领袖，最近一次是对阵图恩。但这位加入约翰逊变革运动的议员，拒绝再次投身竞选。
"I think there's a number of people with talent," Johnson said. "Again, I'm not — at a minimum, we need to see out of our leadership team what's the strategy moving forward, and you can't come off of a defeat like that and just ram through elections and oh yeah, ‘let's just elect that leadership team by acclamation.’" Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., had previously run for leader twice and most recently against Thune. But the lawmaker, who joined Johnson’s crusade for change, declined to throw his hat into the arena again.
“我认为我们必须承认选民不满意，”斯科特说。“我们必须开始倾听选民的声音。”斯科特要求共和党待办事项清单上做出铁一般的承诺，包括强行推进司法提名、政府资金“不通过大规模综合拨款法案”、股票交易禁令、许可改革、通过《国防授权法案》、再次尝试通过《拯救美国法案》以及平衡预算——可能通过预算调和程序实现。
"I think we have to acknowledge the voters are not happy," Scott said. "We have to start listening to voters." Scott wanted ironclad promises on the GOP’s to-do list, including ramming through judicial nominees, government funding "without a massive omnibus," a stock trade ban, permitting reform, passing the National Defense Authorization Act, taking another crack at the SAVE America Act and balancing the budget — possibly through budget reconciliation.
北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员泰德·巴德、犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李、路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪、印第安纳州共和党参议员吉姆·班克斯和宾夕法尼亚州共和党参议员戴夫·麦考密克加入了约翰逊和斯科特，推动推迟选举，但未能得逞，随着秘密投票的进行，这场政变企图逐渐消散。
Johnson and Scott were joined by Sens. Ted Budd, R-N.C., Mike Lee, R-Utah, John Kennedy, R-La., Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Dave McCormick, R-Pa., in a push to delay the elections that was not met, and the would-be coup faded as the secret ballots were cast.
尽管如此，仍有该团体之外的人对上周的情况感到不满，并认为共和党人应当对过去两年所做的事进行更深层的反省，这些行为导致参议院民主党迎来了一个历史性的夜晚。
Still, there were others outside that cohort who weren’t happy with last week and believed that there should be deeper soul-searching on what Republicans did over the last two years that led to a historic night for Senate Democrats.
密苏里州共和党参议员乔什·霍利认为，共和党人在执政期间列出的许多成就，恰恰是导致他们失败的原因。
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., contended that much of what the GOP listed as accomplishments over their time in power is what worked against them.
“而且，你知道，国会的记录就是这样，我想我们最好就我们在做什么进行一次相当艰难的家庭谈话，”霍利说。
"And, you know, you have the kind of record that this Congress has had, I think we better have a pretty tough family conversation about what it is we're doing," Hawley said.
“当你们削减医疗补助，却为数据中心提供资金；当你们削减农村医院资金，却为计划生育协会提供资金；当你们让劳动人民的医疗成本飙升，却在肥料、汽油等其他可负担性问题上对他们无能为力，”他继续说道。“是啊，你们知道吗？公众可不太喜欢这样。”
"When you cut Medicaid, but you fund data centers, when you cut rural hospital funding, but you fund Planned Parenthood, when you let the cost of healthcare for working people go through the roof, but you can't do anything for them on other issues of affordability, from fertilizer to gas," he continued. "Yeah you know what? The public doesn’t like that very much."