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
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold portions of the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) issued the following statement: “Prior to the passage of ObamaCare, Speaker Pelosi infamously said Congress had to pass the bill to ‘find out what is in it,’ and two years later... Continue Reading
Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. John Thune today sent a follow-up letter to the Department of Energy again requesting that the Obama Administration explain its selection of a luxury automaker – now described as “troubled” — for a $529 million federal loan for advanced technology vehicles manufacturing. The federal government... Continue Reading
An agreement has been struck to include legislation offered by Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the Sequestration Transparency Act, as part of an amendment to the Farm Bill requiring the Obama administration to provide Congress with its plan for implementing the required sequestration cuts that will occur... Continue Reading
Today the Senate completed work on the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012 (Farm Bill), passing the measure by a vote of 64 to 35. As a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senator Thune helped draft a Farm Bill that significantly reforms or... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, joined with Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) in releasing a letter today sent to Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.). In their letter, the Senators urge Conrad to promptly schedule a committee meeting to consider the... Continue Reading
Washington, DC — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), International Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member John Thune (R-S.D.), Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Armed Services Committee Ranking Member John McCain (R-Ariz.) unveiled legislation today to enable American businesses to pursue new job-creating export opportunities in Russia when... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, D.C.–U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s comment earlier today that the “private sector is doing fine” despite a record 40 consecutive weeks of unemployment above 8 percent: “President Obama’s statement earlier today that the `private sector... Continue Reading
