Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about the Biden administration’s decision to end the use of pandemic-era Title 42 authorities without any meaningful replacement. Thune noted that President Biden has the authority to address the crisis at the southern... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today introduced the American Prairie Conservation Act. This bipartisan legislation would disincentivize the conversion of native sod to cropland by closing a crop insurance yield substitution loophole in all... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about President Biden’s refusal to negotiate a debt ceiling deal with Speaker McCarthy. Thune noted that if the president continues to reject compromise, something he used to embrace during previous debt ceiling negotiations, he is going to be... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Angus King (I-Maine) today reintroduced a resolution that confronts China’s self-designation status as a developing country at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The resolution states that the WTO should reform its special and differential treatment... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, today spoke on the Senate floor about the striking contrast between Democrats’ and Republicans’ approach to tax policy. Thune noted that Democrats view it as a way to collect... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed how President Biden’s Green-New-Deal, anti-conventional-energy policies jeopardize our nation’s energy supply and drive up prices for American consumers. Thune noted that the president should be pursuing an all-of-the-above energy policy that embraces the full spectrum of available... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the interview. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News to reiterate that the only path forward for a solution to raise the debt limit is an agreement that is acceptable to both House Republicans and President Biden. ... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raising concerns with the Federal Insurance Office’s (FIO’s) efforts to force the Biden administration’s unrealistic... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about Democrats’ hypocrisy when it comes to raising the debt ceiling. Thune noted that President Biden can either get serious about engaging in real negotiations with Speaker McCarthy and arrive at a genuine... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s decision to allow the summertime sale of E15 fuel: “As I have repeatedly made clear to the Biden administration, biofuels are a common-sense, readily... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined 16 Republican senators in sending a letter to the Biden administration’s Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson regarding the agency’s proposal to penalize certain homebuyers who have good credit scores with larger fees in order to reduce... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight, and Susan Collins (R-Maine), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today reintroduced the Increase Reliable Services Now Act, legislation that would prohibit the IRS from hiring new enforcement employees until... Continue Reading
