John Thune actually said...

"I think it was extended."

"By the way, there was a vote on the budget 2 weeks ago here in the Senate, and it got 80 Senate votes, Republican and Democratic, basically stating that the estate tax should either be repealed or red..."

"I think it is unfortunate that we are trying to come back and review this in light of the impacts that it would have on small businesses and farm and ranch families."

"The whole idea of tax reform, in many of our minds at least, was to get away from that in the tax code."