WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, recently sent a letter urging the Department of Education to withdraw its latest student loan forgiveness plan. This proposed rule will cost hard-worki  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on June 5, 2024: U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) today introduced legislation that would require the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to consider consequences for rural areas during their closure or downsizing review process in order to protect rural mail processing facilities. USPS's reviews of processing facilities closures does not require them to consider the impact on   more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today introduced legislation to reauthorize the Reclamation Rural Water Supply Act of 2006. Reauthorization would now include an authorization to the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) to undertake the design and construction of rural water supply projects, delivering potable water supplies to rural communities in western states. In   more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following commentary on June 7, 2024: * * * Too Little, Too Late From his first days in office, President Biden began dismantling the border security policies of his predecessor. Illegal immigration soon began to surge, and it hasn't stopped. Three years and more than 9 million illegal crossings later, the president doesn't regret his actions. The border crisis is a national security crisis. Federal and local law enforcement h  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband; Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Republican leader; Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), member of the Senate Commerce Committee; and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee; today urged Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to immediately abandon her unlawful   more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) today called on U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to pause processing any new amnesty cases following the administration's recent action to grant de facto amnesty to hundreds of thousands of individuals whose asylum cases have been summarily closed without a decision. The senators dem  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- 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 President Biden's immigration executive order designed to mask his failed policies that have created the dire situation at the southern border. Thune noted that President Biden has so far failed to take meaningful action on the border after presiding over three record-breaking years of illegal immigration, and he  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- 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 Senate Democrats' plan to force show votes on bills that are designed to score political points, not become law. Their latest attempt is a bill threatening to violate Americans' conscience rights. Thune noted that if Leader Schumer was actually interested in making a law, he would allow a vote on Sen. Joni Ernst'  more