John Thune: “It seems to me at least that is a fundamental--one of the issues, I think, that has come out of this...”

Try as we did on the House-passed version of it, we weren’t going to get there, and it was the small refineries issue.

I’m a realist. I don’t ever try and sugarcoat things. I think it’s a competitive environment right now.

There’s some states that are going to be on the hook for a pretty big payment.

There's been enough uncertainty this last year, and, you know, unfortunately, I think through two government shutdowns that extended for a long period of time, it's better for everybody if there's predictability, certainty.