WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), both members of the Senate Finance Committee, today reintroduced legislation that would reduce current trade barriers and allow for more low-value items to be imported into the United States duty-free with fewer unnecessary administrative requirements. Thune and Wyden’s bill, the... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today introduced legislation to help America’s students by exempting schools, colleges, and universities from the ObamaCare employer mandate, which is already cutting education jobs and driving up tuition costs across the country. “School budgets should enhance students’ educations—not pay for the president’s health care law,”... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, today ushered three provisions through the committee, including his bipartisan bill to stimulate new agricultural research by leveraging private dollars to create charitable partnerships between universities and private entities. Thune’s bill, which he introduced last Congress with Sen.... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) issued the following statement on the House’s bipartisan passage of the Senate bill to approve the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline: “For more than six years, President Obama has made one excuse after another for blocking this common-sense jobs and infrastructure project. A bipartisan majority in... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, issued the following statement on the House’s bipartisan passage of the Senate bill to approve the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. “For more than six years, President Obama has made one excuse after another for blocking this common-sense jobs... Continue Reading
The president’s health care law is increasing costs and uncertainty forcing business to lay off workers and slow job creation, according to U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and John Thune, R-S.D., who introduced legislation to provide small businesses and their workers protection from some... Continue Reading
After a push from lawmakers led by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Representative Kristi Noem (R-SD), the Administration announced new funding for the Lewis and Clark Water System. The project is set to receive an extra $6.6 million from the Bureau of Reclamation in addition to the $2.4 million... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, today reintroduced the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, the House companion to which passed the U.S.... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) and Rep. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) today urged Department of Veterans Administration (VA) Secretary Robert McDonald to withdraw all plans to reconfigure the Black Hills Health Care System (BHHCS) from the Obama Administration’s budget proposal. Last week, the administration’s budget request proposed... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy calling on the agency to explain why the analysis supporting its 2014 proposal to lower ground-level ozone standards don’t align with a similar EPA proposal from 2011. The... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, today reintroduced the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act, the House companion to which passed the U.S. House... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today at a hearing before the Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security highlighted the frustrations and challenges South Dakota agriculture producers, businesses, and shippers are facing due to the... Continue Reading
