John Thune actually said...

"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."

"[r]eplacing NTIA's role with another governmental organization would be disastrous and we would vigorously oppose such a plan."