WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about the disconnect between Democrats’ big-government, big-spending agenda and the reality faced by working families and small business owners who have struggled to keep up due to historic inflation and record-high costs. Thune also discussed the need for... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) recently introduced the Employee Rights Act of 2023, legislation that would modernize labor policies in order to match the needs of the 21st century worker and workforce. The bill would promote growth and innovation, protect workers rather than... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), ranking member and chairman, respectively, of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, today sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request that it conduct a review of the effectiveness of federal, state, and local broadband... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.),Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) this week reintroduced the Training America’s Workforce Act, legislation that would make apprenticeship programs more responsive to industry workforce needs. The bill would help individuals obtain industry-specific skills through on-the-job learning and classroom instruction,... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today reintroduced the Ending Duplicative Subsidies for Electric Vehicles Act, legislation that would prohibit the automobile industry from double-dipping on federal subsidies, specifically electric vehicle (EV) tax credits, grants, and loans for EV manufacturing. The bill would require stakeholders to choose between receiving manufacturing... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, today led his colleagues in sending a letter to National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Assistant Secretary Alan Davidson expressing concerns with the $42.45 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program’s Notice of... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed his concerns with the nomination of Julie Su to serve as the secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. Thune highlighted Su’s time serving as secretary of labor for the state of California where she enabled massive... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, today spoke on the Senate floor about the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act, his bipartisan legislation that would establish a... 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 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight, today questioned IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the IRS’s fiscal year 2024 budget request. Thune pressed Werfel on... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) poor reputation for customer service and its mishandling of Americans’ private information. Thune also discussed his IRS Funding Accountability Act, legislation that would give Congress a direct... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, recently joined his colleagues in reintroducing the Reforming Broadband Connectivity Act, bipartisan legislation to expand broadband access to rural communities. The bill would strengthen funding mechanisms for the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Universal... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) recently introduced the Accurate Map for Broadband Investment Act, bipartisan legislation to ensure that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has time to update and fix the deeply flawed National Broadband... Continue Reading
