WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, issued the following news release: Today U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Katie Britt (R-Alabama) and John Thune (R-South Dakota) issued this statement in response to the International Criminal Court (ICC) announcing the decision to apply for arrest warrants for democratic  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies released the following written testimony by Shere Wright-Plank, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council, from a hearing dated May 7, 2024, on fiscal 2025 funding for public safety and justice priorities: * * * Honorable Members of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, my name is Shere Wright-Plank, and I have the honor of serving as  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: The House Armed Services Committee passed the annual defense bill with U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson's (R-S.D.) provision from his Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act to crack down on China, protect global supply chains, and increase fairness in the markets. "We've seen the positive results of my Ocean Shipping Reform Act that became law in 2022, but there is more to be done to secure our supp  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Today, legislation led by U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn "GT" Thompson (R-PA), House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC), and French Hill (R-AR) passed the House with bipartisan support. The Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century (FIT21) Act is the result of unprecedented committee collaboration and is th  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs (SVAC), discussed the expansion of VA facilities in Hot Springs, South Dakota and the allocation of additional personnel to Fort Meade near Sturgis, South Dakota at an SVAC hearing. The hearing, titled "Frontier Health Care: Ensuring Veterans' Access No Matter Where They Live," highlighted health care needs for rural   more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Investment and Insurance, and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) detailing concerns with the "Conflicts of Interest Associated with the Use of Predictive Data Analytics by Broker Dealers and Investment Advisers" proposed rule and dir  more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on May 23, 2024: U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today led a bipartisan group of colleagues in introducing a Sense of the Senate resolution to reject the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's application for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. On May 20, 2024, it was announced that ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan  more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on May 22, 2024: U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and his colleagues on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today unanimously passed the annual Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 out of committee by a vote of 17 to 0. This will be the second Intelligence Authorization Act that Senator Rounds has helped shape since he began serving on the Committee in February 2023. "The Intellige  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today introduced the bipartisan Deliver for Democracy Act, legislation that would help rural newspaper delivery by incentivizing reliable postal service and limiting excessive rate increases. In recent years, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has consistently raised rates for periodicals under the guise of increased efficiency and im  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary to Wall Street Journal on May 21, 2024: * * * Suddenly Democrats Care About the Border Trailing in the polls and desperate less than six months before Election Day, President Biden and Senate Democrats are trying something new: their best impersonations of Republicans. The architects of the Biden border crisis--the worst in American history--suddenly want the American people to know they're on the case. Af  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary dated May 17, 2024: * * * FAA Bill Means Safer and Stronger Skies Millions of Americans will board airplanes this year to travel throughout the United States and the world. They depend on a robust and efficient national aviation system to keep the skies safe and traffic running smoothly. Congress recently passed a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that includes some significant p  more

WASHINGTON, May 25 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary on May 24, 2024: * * * Freedom Is Not Free The month of May is a special time to honor the brave men and women who serve and who have served our country in uniform. The entire month is observed as Military Appreciation Month. We also celebrate Armed Forces Day and honor the fallen on Memorial Day. In his first inaugural address, President Eisenhower, himself an accomplished general, said, "We must be ready  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Click here to watch the video. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about the Biden administration's new student loan debt transfer scheme. Thune noted that this latest attempt to circumvent Congress would not only unfairly transfer the burden of forgiving billions of dollars in student debt onto those without loans, it does nothing to address the increasing cost of higher education.   more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) recently called on the U.S. Department of Education to withdraw its latest attempt to transfer student loan debt onto American taxpayers. The U.S. Department of Education's proposed rule would cost hard-working Americans an additional $147 billion, which would bring the total student loan debt transferred to taxpayers to as much as $1 trillion. "The latest Notice of Proposed Rule   more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Click here to watch the video. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor to honor those who serve or have served in the United States military and pay his respects to the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. Thune noted that a celebration of American servicemembers, including South Dakota National Guardsmen and those stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base, would  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Click here or on the picture above to watch the video. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke on the Senate floor about the ongoing crisis at the southern border and Leader Schumer's shameless ploy to blame Republicans for a disaster of President Biden's making. Thune noted that the president has the authority to clean up the chaos he created at the border, a point Thune also made in an opinion piece in tod  more