U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, issued the following comment on a new report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this afternoon which stated that the Democrats’ proposed 40 percent minimum wage hike to $10.10 per hour would result in 500,000 to 1... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, issued the following comment in advance of Monday’s five-year anniversary of President Obama’s stimulus package being signed into law: “Five years and $1 trillion later, millions of Americans are still waiting for the relief Democrats and the president promised... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today praised the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement that it plans to have the livestock disaster programs that were recently reauthorized in the 2014 Farm Bill available for sign up in 60 days. This news... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced legislation (S. 2026) to exempt Olympic and Paralympic medalists from being taxed by the Internal Revenue Service on the medals and cash prizes they win at the Olympics. “Too often the U.S.... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) praised last night’s Senate passage of bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senators Thune, Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) that prohibits the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from enforcing a regulation that harms access to therapy services in rural areas for calendar year 2014.... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today released the following statement regarding the Obama administration’s new unilateral ObamaCare delay: “The Obama administration’s latest delay of the job-destroying mandate on businesses is an admission that ObamaCare will further hurt our struggling economy at a time when... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined a number of his Senate colleagues in sending a letter to President Obama calling for him to engage all relevant agencies in propane shortage relief efforts. Propane shortages have been magnified recently as a result of the extreme cold weather conditions in South Dakota... Continue Reading
Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today led a number of their colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack calling on him to expedite implementation of the livestock disaster programs reauthorized in... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Agriculture, Forestry, and Nutrition Committee and veteran of three Farm Bills in Congress, today made the following statement regarding the Senate passage of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (H.R. 2642) by a vote of 68 to... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) again called for President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline following the State Department’s release today of its fifth environmental impact study on the pipeline: “The Obama State Department has said that the Keystone XL pipeline, which has broad bipartisan backing, would support over... Continue Reading
Following the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to continue moving forward in its war on affordable energy by requiring new power plants to meet expensive and unnecessary regulations, Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) today sent a letter, along with a number of his colleagues, to President Obama urging him to avoid... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) offered the following remarks regarding what he hopes to hear during the president’s State of the Union address tonight: “The president has said that 2014 “has to be a year of action,” and I agree. Tonight I want to hear the president focus on action—on... Continue Reading
