John Thune actually said...

"It strikes me, at least, that it would make a lot more sense if you want to treat the railroads in sort of a fair way, you have to push that out there, knowing that they're not going to be able to mee..."

"I've said many times that maintaining and improving our Nation's infrastructure is absolutely vital to our country's economic prosperity."

"Well, I think the legislation also has the provisional certification that you talked about, as well. It has some flexibility, but it also has the deadline attached to it."

"Many of us, my colleagues on the Committee here and others, have introduced legislation that would provide this blanket extension that I referred to, which does have a hard, firm deadline."