John Thune actually said...

"It's time for the STB to refocus its mission on providing regulatory balance to support the businesses and the people who use the rail network."

"I find it hard to believe that we would have seen the kind of action that we needed to see taken had it not been for the agency and for the attention, obviously, the Congress has paid to this issue."

"I have often said that North Dakota has oil, Wyoming has coal, Montana has some of both, and in South Dakota we have pheasants."

"The bill introduced by Senators Rockefeller and Thune will help change that."