John Thune actually said...

"I hope that our committee will consider this bill in the coming months."

"there are a number of us on the Committee who are co-sponsoring legislation that would extend that by a reasonable amount of time."

"there's a lot of pressure on the railroads, obviously, to comply with and to meet the 2015 deadline."

"The railroads have run into a lot of obstacles and their efforts to meet this 2015 PTC deadline."