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April 19, 2021
Rounds, Shaheen Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Alert Veterans & Service Members Exposed to PFAS Contaminants
Sen. Mike Rounds
April 19, 2021
Thune, Crapo, and Cornyn Introduce Legislation to Incentivize Individuals to Return to the Workforce
Sen. John Thune
April 19, 2021
Letter to Hon. Isabella Guzman, Administrator of Small Business Administration - Cantwell, Colleagues Send Letter to Small Business Administration Urging Opening of Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Application Portal, Highlighting Critical Needs of Venues
Sen. John Thune, ...
April 19, 2021
Tweet - "Pres. Biden's trillion-dollar "infrastructure" proposal stretches the meaning of infrastructure far beyond how most South Dakotans define it. You should be straight with the American people if you're planning one of the largest tax hikes in generations."
Sen. John Thune
April 16, 2021
House Agriculture Committee Rolls Out Conservative Climate Solutions
Rep. Dusty Johnson
April 16, 2021
Inhofe, Rounds, Blunt, Lummis Introduce Indian Lands Accelerated Depreciation Bill
Sen. Mike Rounds, ...
April 16, 2021
Thune, Hassan Introduce Bills to Bolster the United States' Leadership in Quantum Information Science
Sen. John Thune
April 16, 2021
LaMalfa Introduces RESTORE Act to Improve Forest Health, Mitigate Wildfire Risk
Rep. Dusty Johnson, ...
April 15, 2021
Johnson's Kids Success Act Examines Continued School Closure Impact on Vulnerable Students
Rep. Dusty Johnson
April 15, 2021
Johnson's "Keep the Nine" Constitutional Amendment Gains 100 House Cosponsors
Rep. Dusty Johnson
April 15, 2021
Infrastructure
Sen. John Thune
April 15, 2021
Letter to the Hon. Joe Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Cassidy, 100 Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Retain the Protect Life Rule on Title X Funding
Sen. John Thune, ...
April 14, 2021
Tweet - "Conditions at our southern border are dire -- Ds can't deny it, so they're trying to hide it (by blocking press). Pres. Biden & VP should find time to see it. Maybe then they'll make needed policy changes. Until they do, good efforts by @CBP are just band-aids on a cracked hull."
Sen. John Thune
April 14, 2021
Border Security
Sen. John Thune
April 14, 2021
Thune, Schatz Reintroduce Legislation to Improve Weather Modeling, Forecasting
Sen. John Thune
April 13, 2021
Tweet - "If Democrats want to make impactful infrastructure investments, how about resuming (already paid for) wall construction at the southern border? Let's start there."
Sen. John Thune
April 13, 2021
Tweet - "I confess I had missed the part in the Constitution that said the Supreme Court is only legitimate if a majority of its members were nominated by a Democrat president -- or at least reliably deliver liberals' preferred outcomes."
Sen. John Thune
April 8, 2021
Letter to Honorable Michael S. Regan, Administrator of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Rep. Johnson, Biofuels Caucus Urge EPA to Prioritize Biofuels
Rep. Dusty Johnson, ...
April 7, 2021
Capito Joins Group of 10 Republican Senators in Releasing Joint Statement in Response to Comments from President Biden
Sen. Mike Rounds, ...
April 7, 2021
Letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States - Tillis, Colleagues Call on President Biden to Pursue Comprehensive Diplomatic Approach Towards Iran
Sen. John Thune, ...
April 6, 2021
House Members Hold Meeting with Federal Maritime Commission on Shipping Delays Impacting Ag Sector
Rep. Dusty Johnson
April 5, 2021
Tweet - "Even Democrats agree this is the Biden administration's own crisis to fix. The president can start by reinstating policies that worked and enforcing our border. Border resources are overwhelmed. The president can't afford to wait or ignore this any longer."
Sen. John Thune
April 5, 2021
Letter to the Hon. Isabel Guzman, Administrator of the Small Business Administration - Cassidy, Republican Senators Demand Investigation into PPP Loans to Planned Parenthoodq
Sen. Mike Rounds, ...
April 3, 2021
Tweet - "Help Is Here! Thanks to the #AmericanRescuePlan, we have regained nearly 62% of the 22.2M jobs lost during the pandemic. We're putting vaccines in arms and money in pockets to help get people back in jobs!"
Sen. John Thune
April 3, 2021
Tweet - "The March jobs report is resounding evidence that, under @HouseDemocrats & @POTUS, Help Is Here. Over 100M vaccine doses & 100M checks have been delivered and nearly $1 trillion are being put in workers' pockets by the life-saving #AmericanRescuePlan."
Sen. John Thune
April 2, 2021
Pelosi Statement on March Jobs Report
Sen. John Thune
April 1, 2021
Tweet - "Heard many stories of kids in dangerous situations b/c this admin made them a loophole to game the system: 5-year-old kids traveling alone, 2-year-olds w/ strangers -- CBP officers see it every day. Mr. President, this is what an open border looks like (special character)"
Sen. John Thune
April 1, 2021
Tweet - "Powerful footage exposing how smugglers/cartels are brazenly exploiting Biden's policies to traffic vulnerable women & children into our country at a profit of over $14 million/ day (special character). You can read about this crisis in the news, but you have to see it to comprehend the magnitude."
Sen. John Thune
March 31, 2021
Tweet - "As long as the Biden admin continues to implement policies that give the impression of an open, porous border, people are going to keep flooding into our country."
Sen. John Thune
March 29, 2021
Tweet - "Had a candid convo at the SF Rotary today. One thing I discussed was the dangers I see w/ social media. Big tech's goal is to keep you on the platform, so they reinforce what you already believe. My bill requires big tech to tell you when your feed is being manipulated by AI."
Sen. John Thune
March 29, 2021
Letter to the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Hon. Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives - Rep. Young Kim Joins Bipartisan Letter to House Leadership to Return to Regular Order
Rep. Dusty Johnson, ...
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "What I'm seeing on the border is harrowing: facilities are dangerously overcrowded, border patrol officers are overwhelmed & under-supported, smugglers (often w/ties to drug cartels) are profiting massively, hundreds of scared kids are on their own."
Sen. John Thune
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "Midnight on the Rio Grande -- visible lights from smugglers on the Mexican side of the border. Hearing stories that these smugglers are charging upwards of $6,000, much of which flows to drug cartels."
Sen. John Thune
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "Strong border security, enforcing immigration laws, stopping asylum abuse, and cracking down on the traffickers and cartels that prey on migrants are among the steps the administration should take to end the Biden border crisis."
Sen. John Thune
March 26, 2021
Letter to Secretary Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and HumanServices - Rubio, Lee, Colleagues Urge HHS to Evaluate Expanding Ethical Sources of Fetal Tissue
Sen. Mike Rounds, ...
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "Being told by CBP that Biden border crisis was totally avoidable if this admin had listened to the warnings of our border experts. Once again, they caved to their political left, and the result is a humanitarian and public safety emergency, which is worsening by the day."
Sen. John Thune
March 25, 2021
Tweet - "It's amazing that President Biden can still stand in front of the American people and talk about unity when he seems open to the idea of potentially cutting half the Senate out of the lawmaking process."
Sen. John Thune
March 25, 2021
Tweet - "POTUS claimed that the filibuster has been "abused in a gigantic way." There have been *zero* filibusters this Congress. So he must be referring to last Congress? Or the one before that? Or the one before that? You know, during the 6 years when Dems filibustered GOP initiatives."
Sen. John Thune
March 25, 2021
Rounds Introduces Bill Requiring DNA Border Testing to "End Child Trafficking Now'
Sen. Mike Rounds
March 25, 2021
Thune, Shaheen, Fischer Introduce Legislation to Incentivize Capital Investments in Rural Businesses
Sen. John Thune
March 25, 2021
Letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States - Bipartisan Group of Senators Make Case for Comprehensive Diplomatic Approach Towards Iran in New Letter to President Biden
Sen. Mike Rounds, ...
March 25, 2021
Letter to Honorable Joseph R. Biden, President of The United States - Crapo Joins Bipartisan Group to Make Case for Comprehensive Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran
Sen. John Thune, ...
March 25, 2021
Tweet - "President Biden talked an awful lot about "creating jobs" and the "average American" for a person who took jobs away from over 10,000 Americans on his first day in office. #KeystoneXL"
Sen. John Thune
March 24, 2021
Tweet - ". @USDA is doing the right thing & moving forward with the additional CFAP assistance that Congress provided last year. I'll continue pressing USDA to assist our farmers, ranchers, and biofuel producers affected by the pandemic. Learn more:"
Sen. John Thune
March 24, 2021
Letter to Honorable Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture - Feenstra Leads Colleagues in Urging Secretary Vilsack to Unfreeze CFAP, Provide Authorized Assistance for Biofuels Producers
Rep. Dusty Johnson, ...
March 24, 2021
Filibuster
Sen. John Thune
March 24, 2021
Inhofe Joins All SASC Republicans to Reject Kahl as Under Secretary of Defense For Policy
Sen. Mike Rounds, ...
March 24, 2021
Tweet - "What's the first bill Dems would likely pass if they break the Senate filibuster rule? A bill to federalize elections, restrict states' rights, & eliminate protections for election integrity."
Sen. John Thune
March 23, 2021
Filibuster
Sen. John Thune
March 23, 2021
Tweet - "Dems loved the filibuster when they were in the minority, & it meant they could have a say in GOP bills. But just a few months into their new majority & they don't want to bother w/ bipartisanship. They want to do whatever they want, whenever they want it."
Sen. John Thune
Date
Title
Politician
April 19, 2021
Rounds, Shaheen Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Alert Veterans & Service Members Exposed to PFAS Contaminants
Sen.Mike Rounds
April 19, 2021
Thune, Crapo, and Cornyn Introduce Legislation to Incentivize Individuals to Return to the Workforce
Sen.John Thune
April 19, 2021
Letter to Hon. Isabella Guzman, Administrator of Small Business Administration - Cantwell, Colleagues Send Letter to Small Business Administration Urging Opening of Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Application Portal, Highlighting Critical Needs of Venues
Sen.John Thune, ...
April 19, 2021
Tweet - "Pres. Biden's trillion-dollar "infrastructure" proposal stretches the meaning of infrastructure far beyond how most South Dakotans define it. You should be straight with the American people if you're planning one of the largest tax hikes in generations."
Sen.John Thune
April 16, 2021
House Agriculture Committee Rolls Out Conservative Climate Solutions
Rep.Dusty Johnson
April 16, 2021
Inhofe, Rounds, Blunt, Lummis Introduce Indian Lands Accelerated Depreciation Bill
Sen.Mike Rounds, ...
April 16, 2021
Thune, Hassan Introduce Bills to Bolster the United States' Leadership in Quantum Information Science
Sen.John Thune
April 16, 2021
LaMalfa Introduces RESTORE Act to Improve Forest Health, Mitigate Wildfire Risk
Rep.Dusty Johnson, ...
April 15, 2021
Johnson's Kids Success Act Examines Continued School Closure Impact on Vulnerable Students
Rep.Dusty Johnson
April 15, 2021
Johnson's "Keep the Nine" Constitutional Amendment Gains 100 House Cosponsors
Rep.Dusty Johnson
April 15, 2021
Infrastructure
Sen.John Thune
April 15, 2021
Letter to the Hon. Joe Biden, President of the United States, and Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services - Cassidy, 100 Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Retain the Protect Life Rule on Title X Funding
Sen.John Thune, ...
April 14, 2021
Tweet - "Conditions at our southern border are dire -- Ds can't deny it, so they're trying to hide it (by blocking press). Pres. Biden & VP should find time to see it. Maybe then they'll make needed policy changes. Until they do, good efforts by @CBP are just band-aids on a cracked hull."
Sen.John Thune
April 14, 2021
Border Security
Sen.John Thune
April 14, 2021
Thune, Schatz Reintroduce Legislation to Improve Weather Modeling, Forecasting
Sen.John Thune
April 13, 2021
Tweet - "If Democrats want to make impactful infrastructure investments, how about resuming (already paid for) wall construction at the southern border? Let's start there."
Sen.John Thune
April 13, 2021
Tweet - "I confess I had missed the part in the Constitution that said the Supreme Court is only legitimate if a majority of its members were nominated by a Democrat president -- or at least reliably deliver liberals' preferred outcomes."
Sen.John Thune
April 8, 2021
Letter to Honorable Michael S. Regan, Administrator of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Rep. Johnson, Biofuels Caucus Urge EPA to Prioritize Biofuels
Rep.Dusty Johnson, ...
April 7, 2021
Capito Joins Group of 10 Republican Senators in Releasing Joint Statement in Response to Comments from President Biden
Sen.Mike Rounds, ...
April 7, 2021
Letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States - Tillis, Colleagues Call on President Biden to Pursue Comprehensive Diplomatic Approach Towards Iran
Sen.John Thune, ...
April 6, 2021
House Members Hold Meeting with Federal Maritime Commission on Shipping Delays Impacting Ag Sector
Rep.Dusty Johnson
April 5, 2021
Tweet - "Even Democrats agree this is the Biden administration's own crisis to fix. The president can start by reinstating policies that worked and enforcing our border. Border resources are overwhelmed. The president can't afford to wait or ignore this any longer."
Sen.John Thune
April 5, 2021
Letter to the Hon. Isabel Guzman, Administrator of the Small Business Administration - Cassidy, Republican Senators Demand Investigation into PPP Loans to Planned Parenthoodq
Sen.Mike Rounds, ...
April 3, 2021
Tweet - "Help Is Here! Thanks to the #AmericanRescuePlan, we have regained nearly 62% of the 22.2M jobs lost during the pandemic. We're putting vaccines in arms and money in pockets to help get people back in jobs!"
Sen.John Thune
April 3, 2021
Tweet - "The March jobs report is resounding evidence that, under @HouseDemocrats & @POTUS, Help Is Here. Over 100M vaccine doses & 100M checks have been delivered and nearly $1 trillion are being put in workers' pockets by the life-saving #AmericanRescuePlan."
Sen.John Thune
April 2, 2021
Pelosi Statement on March Jobs Report
Sen.John Thune
April 1, 2021
Tweet - "Heard many stories of kids in dangerous situations b/c this admin made them a loophole to game the system: 5-year-old kids traveling alone, 2-year-olds w/ strangers -- CBP officers see it every day. Mr. President, this is what an open border looks like (special character)"
Sen.John Thune
April 1, 2021
Tweet - "Powerful footage exposing how smugglers/cartels are brazenly exploiting Biden's policies to traffic vulnerable women & children into our country at a profit of over $14 million/ day (special character). You can read about this crisis in the news, but you have to see it to comprehend the magnitude."
Sen.John Thune
March 31, 2021
Tweet - "As long as the Biden admin continues to implement policies that give the impression of an open, porous border, people are going to keep flooding into our country."
Sen.John Thune
March 29, 2021
Tweet - "Had a candid convo at the SF Rotary today. One thing I discussed was the dangers I see w/ social media. Big tech's goal is to keep you on the platform, so they reinforce what you already believe. My bill requires big tech to tell you when your feed is being manipulated by AI."
Sen.John Thune
March 29, 2021
Letter to the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Hon. Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives - Rep. Young Kim Joins Bipartisan Letter to House Leadership to Return to Regular Order
Rep.Dusty Johnson, ...
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "What I'm seeing on the border is harrowing: facilities are dangerously overcrowded, border patrol officers are overwhelmed & under-supported, smugglers (often w/ties to drug cartels) are profiting massively, hundreds of scared kids are on their own."
Sen.John Thune
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "Midnight on the Rio Grande -- visible lights from smugglers on the Mexican side of the border. Hearing stories that these smugglers are charging upwards of $6,000, much of which flows to drug cartels."
Sen.John Thune
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "Strong border security, enforcing immigration laws, stopping asylum abuse, and cracking down on the traffickers and cartels that prey on migrants are among the steps the administration should take to end the Biden border crisis."
Sen.John Thune
March 26, 2021
Letter to Secretary Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and HumanServices - Rubio, Lee, Colleagues Urge HHS to Evaluate Expanding Ethical Sources of Fetal Tissue
Sen.Mike Rounds, ...
March 26, 2021
Tweet - "Being told by CBP that Biden border crisis was totally avoidable if this admin had listened to the warnings of our border experts. Once again, they caved to their political left, and the result is a humanitarian and public safety emergency, which is worsening by the day."
Sen.John Thune
March 25, 2021
Tweet - "It's amazing that President Biden can still stand in front of the American people and talk about unity when he seems open to the idea of potentially cutting half the Senate out of the lawmaking process."
Sen.John Thune
March 25, 2021
Tweet - "POTUS claimed that the filibuster has been "abused in a gigantic way." There have been *zero* filibusters this Congress. So he must be referring to last Congress? Or the one before that? Or the one before that? You know, during the 6 years when Dems filibustered GOP initiatives."
Sen.John Thune
March 25, 2021
Rounds Introduces Bill Requiring DNA Border Testing to "End Child Trafficking Now'
Sen.Mike Rounds
March 25, 2021
Thune, Shaheen, Fischer Introduce Legislation to Incentivize Capital Investments in Rural Businesses
Sen.John Thune
March 25, 2021
Letter to Joe Biden, President of the United States - Bipartisan Group of Senators Make Case for Comprehensive Diplomatic Approach Towards Iran in New Letter to President Biden
Sen.Mike Rounds, ...
March 25, 2021
Letter to Honorable Joseph R. Biden, President of The United States - Crapo Joins Bipartisan Group to Make Case for Comprehensive Diplomatic Approach Toward Iran
Sen.John Thune, ...
March 25, 2021
Tweet - "President Biden talked an awful lot about "creating jobs" and the "average American" for a person who took jobs away from over 10,000 Americans on his first day in office. #KeystoneXL"
Sen.John Thune
March 24, 2021
Tweet - ". @USDA is doing the right thing & moving forward with the additional CFAP assistance that Congress provided last year. I'll continue pressing USDA to assist our farmers, ranchers, and biofuel producers affected by the pandemic. Learn more:"
Sen.John Thune
March 24, 2021
Letter to Honorable Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture - Feenstra Leads Colleagues in Urging Secretary Vilsack to Unfreeze CFAP, Provide Authorized Assistance for Biofuels Producers
Rep.Dusty Johnson, ...
March 24, 2021
Filibuster
Sen.John Thune
March 24, 2021
Inhofe Joins All SASC Republicans to Reject Kahl as Under Secretary of Defense For Policy
Sen.Mike Rounds, ...
March 24, 2021
Tweet - "What's the first bill Dems would likely pass if they break the Senate filibuster rule? A bill to federalize elections, restrict states' rights, & eliminate protections for election integrity."
Sen.John Thune
March 23, 2021
Filibuster
Sen.John Thune
March 23, 2021
Tweet - "Dems loved the filibuster when they were in the minority, & it meant they could have a say in GOP bills. But just a few months into their new majority & they don't want to bother w/ bipartisanship. They want to do whatever they want, whenever they want it."
Sen.John Thune
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