U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) today met with President Obama’s nominee to be U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Robert McDonald, to discuss much needed reforms at the VA and to underscore the importance of the Hot Springs VA facility in providing high quality care to veterans in the... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) today announced his selection of Scott and Jamie Nagy and their family of Brookings for the 2014 Angels in Adoption Award presented by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, of which Thune is a member. Scott and Jamie adopted their daughter Naika from Haiti in... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today applauded the committee’s bipartisan approval of a bill to reauthorize Brand USA, a public-private partnership to increase the number of visitors to the United States. The Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act... Continue Reading
Today at a hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee to discuss the reauthorization of child nutrition programs, U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) addressed the need for flexible child nutrition standards. Following the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, school districts throughout South Dakota and around the... Continue Reading
Today, U.S. Senators Tim Johnson (D-SD) and John Thune (R-SD), and Representative Kristi Noem (R-SD) sent a letter to President Barack Obama expressing support for Governor Dennis Daugaard’s request for a major disaster declaration for Public Assistance for Butte, Clay, Corson, Dewey, Hanson, Jerauld, Lincoln, Perkins, Minnehaha, Turner, Union, and... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, questioned top executives at General Motors (GM) and Delphi about their failures resulting in the GM ignition switch recall at today’s Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee hearing. “GM has admitted, via... Continue Reading
U.S. Senators John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) and John Thune (R-SD), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today issued the following statement regarding the committee’s plans to reauthorize expiring provisions of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) of 2010: “The Senate Committee... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) today applauded the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for providing $750,000 in quick release emergency relief funds to South Dakota to help repair roads and bridges damaged in the June flooding. The funding will be used to make repairs in two locations on SD-19... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, today applauded the U.S. House of Representative’s broad bipartisan approval of the companion bill to his Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act (S. 1431), which he... Continue Reading
Following the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) announcement that it rejected South Dakota’s request for individual assistance in Jerauld, Lincoln, and Union counties, Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) is encouraging South Dakota residents in Minnehaha, Lincoln, and Union Counties to consider applying for Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster assistance. “While... Continue Reading
U.S. Senators Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska), Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) and John Thune (R- South Dakota) today offered an amendment to legislation before the Senate that would give Nebraska and South Dakota authority over potential land acquisitions by the federal government along the Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs Conservation areas. Unfortunately, Sen. Majority... Continue Reading
Today, U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), Chair of the Joint Economic Committee and a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, led a bipartisan group of 32 senators in sending a letter to U.S.... Continue Reading
