U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expedite the development of the cover crop guidelines that were established in the 2018 farm bill. The senators also requested that haying and grazing... Continue Reading
Click here or the photo above to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed the state of the agriculture economy and what he is doing in Congress to address the concerns that South Dakota farmers and ranchers have expressed to him. Full text of the speech... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON- U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed his work to advance the United States in the race to 5G, including his MOBILE NOW Act, which was signed into law in 2018, and his bipartisan STREAMLINE Small Cell Deployment Act, legislation he reintroduced yesterday with Sen. Brian Schatz... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member and former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and current chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the ranking member of the subcommittee, today reintroduced the Streamlining the Rapid Evolution And Modernization of Leading-edge Infrastructure Necessary... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to permit the year-round sale of E15 fuel (15 percent ethanol-blended fuel) in the United States went into effect, which follows through on President Trump’s... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) was featured on CBS This Morning today discussing the bipartisan Employer Participation in Repayment Act, which would allow employers to contribute up to $5,250 tax-free to their employees’ student loans — providing employees with much-needed relief and employers with a unique tool to attract and... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) this week unveiled a new item in his historic Senate majority whip leadership office in the U.S. Capitol: a large mounted bison head, which is on loan from the National Bison Association. The bison is from Slim Buttes Ranch in Buffalo, South Dakota, and the... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member and former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and current chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Ed Markey (D-Mass.), also a member of the Commerce Committee and author of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.),... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) today sent a letter to President Trump in support of Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R-S.D.) request for a major disaster declaration in South Dakota following severe late-winter storms, high winds, heavy rain, and flooding that began... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.46 million grant to Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota, to help establish a high speed research network. The investment, located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act designated... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed the Trump administration’s recent announcement that it will remove U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico, eliminating a major roadblock to passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, because it and the recently adopted labor reforms in Mexico were two of... Continue Reading
U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today urged United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Perdue to provide short-term economic relief to American agriculture producers facing a challenging economic climate. “Producers are aware that China has taken advantage of U.S. innovation... Continue Reading
