WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- The House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access issued the following hearing information: "South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.: Online Sales Taxes and their Impact on Main Street" at 2360 Rayburn House Office Building at 10 a.m. on March 3: The hearing will focus on the impact to small firms as a result of the decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair regarding online sales taxes. In Wayfair, the Supreme Court overturned a previous ruling where it det  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to address safety concerns following the USDA decision to lift a ban on Brazilian beef into the U.S. The U.S. suspended imports in 2017 following several public health concerns. "Consumers purchase beef without reservation. That confidence is vital to sustain domestic beef demand," said Johnson. "While we must h  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and 13 other senators in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to express their concerns with the administration's decision to lift the U.S. ban on Brazilian raw beef imports. In 2017, USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) blocked imports of Brazilian beef due to public health concerns, poor  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following op-ed: The Senate recently voted on two commonsense bills that would have gone a long way to help defend the rights of the defenseless. Unfortunately, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act were both defeated, largely on party lines. All Senate Republicans joined a handful of Democrats in supporting the born-alive bill, but we came just four votes shy of what w  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, led a bipartisan group of senators in expressing their concern with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) decision to lift its U.S. ban on Brazilian raw beef imports. The senators worry this decision could put food safety standards at risk, and they have significant concern  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) urged Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie to visit with veterans who would be personally affected by the VA's Black Hills planned realignment during his upcoming visit to the Hot Springs VA medical center. Currently, Wilkie's draft itinerary does not include interaction with members of the community, vet  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) urged financial regulators from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the National Credit Union Administration to provide appropriate regulatory flexibility to community financial institutions around the country that work with farm clients.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced the Telecommunications Skilled Workforce Act, legislation to address the shortage of trained workers that are necessary to fill next-generation jobs in the telecommunications industry in communiti  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, this week introduced the Tribal Transportation Equity and Transparency Improvement Act, legislation to increase tribal transportation funding flexibility and improve the transparency and consistency of the Tribal Transportation Program's administration and data collection   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on Feb. 28: U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and John Thune, R-S.D., chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, released the following statements after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted favorably to reform the use of C-Band spectrum and promote U.S. leadership in t  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency's (FSA's) announcement that the Thune-authored Soil Health and Income Protection Program (SHIPP) pilot will soon be available to producers in South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, and Montana. The sign-up for this pilot program starts March 30  more