U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) today sent a letter to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-Okla.). In their letter, the Senators urge Senators Boxer and Inhofe to promptly... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, released the following statement today regarding the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania after heroic actions by passengers: “Today marks 11 years since... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) says the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) report released today clearly shows that the Democrat-controlled Senate’s recently passed tax legislation would jeopardize the future of 71 percent of South Dakota’s family farms because it intentionally returns the death tax exemption to $1 million next year instead... Continue Reading
U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD) and Representative Kristi Noem (R-SD) today announced that the National Weather Service has upgraded its Sioux Falls forecast office with life-saving technology. The office has been equipped with the new dual polarization radar that will give meteorologists more tools to... Continue Reading
Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) today announced his nomination of Ryan and Amber Johnson of Sioux Falls for the 2012 Angels in Adoption Award. This award is presented annually by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, of which Senator Thune is a member. This award recognizes the outstanding contributions of men and... Continue Reading
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
