WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, issued the following statement: Chair Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on President Trump's planned event at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota, which will include a fireworks display that had not been practiced for more than a decade due to concerns about wildfires and water contamination. According to the impact assessment that allowed the event to go forward, "All tribes consulted objected to the event and consider it   more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Filemon Vela (D-TX) and Joe Wilson (R-SC) introduced a bipartisan amendment to the House of Representatives' National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This legislation focuses on improving the Department of Defense's (DoD) approach to overseeing weapon systems investments. "I'm thrilled that my amendment was added to the House of Representatives' annual defen  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and U.S. Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging it to exercise its authority to allow producers to graze or harvest cover crops on prevented plant acres prior to November 1. "While we do not expect nearly as many prevented plant acres as l  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following op-ed: I currently serve as chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, and I'm the senior Republican on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Both panels play an integral role in developing federal technology policy and providing oversight of some of the nation's largest technology companies, including Twitter, Facebook, and Google, just to name a   more