Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today criticized the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for blowing past the deadline to provide a detailed report on how the agency intends to use the unprecedented $80 billion in new funding that Democrats provided the agency last August... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in urging President Biden to permit the year-round sale of E15 fuel in 2023 in order to reduce the United States’ reliance... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about President Biden’s reckless student loan forgiveness plan. Thune discussed how the president’s student loan bailout is incredibly unfair to those taxpayers who never incurred student debt, and he noted that it will do... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) recently sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Martin Walsh requesting an update on the... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, today reintroduced the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act. The legislation would end President Biden’s untargeted, budget-busting suspension of repayments on qualifying federal student loans. The... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed how the Biden administration has failed to examine the impact environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies will have on the price of food and energy. Thune noted that ESG regulations are designed to choke off investment to the... 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 issued the following statement regarding the nomination of Gigi Sohn to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). “Americans deserve an FCC nominee who can do... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today led several of his Senate Republican colleagues in reintroducing the Food and Energy Security Act, legislation that would prohibit the Biden administration from forcing its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda onto the American economy. Specifically, the bill would require federal financial... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) recently introduced the Justice Against Sponsors of Illicit Fentanyl Act, legislation that would amend foreign sovereign immunity and anti-terrorism laws to allow victims of fentanyl and their survivors to bring civil claims against nations, primarily Mexico and China, that enable the continued flood of... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed President Biden’s State of the Union address and some of the areas where Republicans and Democrats can find common ground in a divided Congress to address the issues facing the country. Thune’s remarks below (as prepared for... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight; Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a current member of the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight; and U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), chairman of... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Jim Baird (R-Ind.) plan to reintroduce the Strengthening Local Processing Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation, which will be formally reintroduced tomorrow, would... Continue Reading
