U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to the Obama administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to shore up another faltering stimulus-funded company, A123 Systems Inc.... Continue Reading
A bill authored by U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, that would require transparency from the Obama Administration on its plan for implementing nearly $1 trillion in required sequestration cuts was signed into law by... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), yesterday sent the following letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to request the release of an additional 445,000 Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres enrolled in wetlands and other practices for emergency haying and grazing in South Dakota. Thune’s request came after speaking with leaders of... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Aviation Operations, Safety and Security Subcommittee, today commended the Senate Commerce Committee for passing his bipartisan bill (S.1956) by voice vote to prevent the European Union (E.U.) from adding a tax on flights traveling through U.S. airspace. Similar legislation... Continue Reading
The Senate last night passed by unanimous consent H.R. 5872, the Sequestration Transparency Act, which the House of Representatives passed last week by a vote of 414-2. This bill was originally introduced by Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), and... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today denounced the Senate’s failure to protect small businesses and middle class families from looming tax increases scheduled to take place at the beginning of next year. The Senate today voted on... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today reacted to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s announcement that certain Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres in counties designated as “abnormally dry” under the U.S. Drought Monitor would now be eligible for emergency haying and grazing. In... Continue Reading
U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, today praised the House of Representatives’ passage of the Sequestration Transparency Act (H.R.5872) in a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote of 414 to 2. The bill would require the... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today said a new report by Ernst & Young is further evidence that President Barack Obama’s small business tax hike would kill jobs and hurt the economy. The new study found... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) has added a survey to his website asking South Dakota farmers and ranchers for their suggestions on changes that could be made to programs that would assist in dealing with this summer’s ongoing drought conditions. The National Climatic Data Center reported today that the U.S.... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune is currently seeking hard-working college students to serve as interns in his office in Washington, D.C., as well as in his offices in Aberdeen, Rapid City, and Sioux Falls. Interns in Thune’s state offices will participate in constituent service and state outreach activities, while students in the... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) today sent the following letter regarding haying and grazing on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres in South Dakota to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack after meeting this past weekend with ranchers in Western South Dakota. Such emergency action has been permitted for CRP acres... Continue Reading
