WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today led a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to take immediate action to assist pork producers and maintain the pork food supply chain. The letter follows the closure of the Smithfield processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Smithfield also recently announced the cl  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to take immediate action to assist pork producers and maintain the pork food supply chain. The letter follows the closure of the Smithfield processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Smithfield also recently announced the closure of its plant in Martin City, Missou  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on April 15: U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined 34 of his Senate colleagues in a letter to President Donald Trump to ask the administration to maintain pro-life protections during the search for treatments and cures for COVID-19. The letter refutes a request by 15 pro-abortion state attorneys general requesting waivers to prohibitions on the use of fetal tissue for coronavirus research. "These attemp  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following transcript of interview with Thune on Fox News: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) joined Fox News' "America's Newsroom" to discuss the Democrats' blockade of critical Paycheck Protection Program funding for America's small businesses and workers and China's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. On Democrats' blockade of Paycheck Protection Program funding: "I think it's just unconscionable that Washington Democrats are   more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following op-ed: The people of South Dakota are my top advisors. I rely on them more than anyone to get important advice and feedback about my work in Washington. While my reliance on their expertise hasn't changed - and it never will - the venues through which I receive it certainly has these days. The coronavirus outbreak has changed just about everything in our day-to-day lives, not the least of which is how we stay connect  more

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, April 15 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) released his second U.S. government video lesson in which he gives a brief overview of how a bill becomes a law. Thune used his TRACED Act, a law to combat illegal robocallers, as an example. Thune previously released a video lesson in which he gave a brief overview of how the federal government works. "By now, we all know that you won't be returning to the c  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following statement on April 16: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) issued the following statement on Senate Democrats' refusal to help strengthen the Paycheck Protection Program, which was created by the bipartisan Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. This unprecedented program has been providing relief to American small businesses and workers who have been negatively affected by the coronavirus crisis. The Paycheck   more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue to take immediate action to assist pork producers and maintain the pork food supply chain. The letter follows the closure of the Smithfield processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Smithfield also recently announced the closure of   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- 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.) joined Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and ten of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requesting additional funds be allocated to the biofuel industry through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) during the unprecedented economic circumstances brought  more