John Thune News

South Dakota has had quite a bit of energy development the past decade. But some observers wonder if the pace is too fast, while others say it's not fast enough.

Acres of pine trees in the Black Hills National Forest have fallen prey to the mountain pine beetle, and Sen.

John Thune says Republican proposals could hit a roadblock in the Senate with the official election of Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota.

The US Defense Department is preparing to make dozens of its key bases across America "off grid ready."A And apparently in 15 years, all Army bases are expected to be fully off-grid with renewable energy, say military sources - that's if we are still around in 15 years.

Republican lawmakers are demanding an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency suppressed a staff-prepared study that argues against the agency's proposal that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health.

On a conference call organized by the right-wing Judicial Confirmation Network, Sen.

Sen. John Ensign , caught in the middle of a sex scandal, apologized to his Senate Republican colleagues during a closed-door luncheon, several senators said Tuesday.

"The governors that are represented here today -- Governor Rounds, Gregoire, Douglas, Granholm and Doyle -- they are representative of the bipartisan group of governors that hosted roundtables around the country on health care" President Obama meets today with five U.S governor, including South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, to discuss the nation's ...

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 06/23/2009 9:45 AM Might we call this a Pyrrhic victory? On the same day that South Dakota bar and casino owners play stooges to Big Tobacco and submit petitions with 25,000 signatures to delay South Dakota's smoking ban and refer it to public vote in November 2010, President Barack Obama signs a federal anti-smoking ...

Posted by: Denise Ross - 06/24/2009 9:18 PM Every time I hear or read about how the national GOP is leaderless, I wonder why South Dakota's junior senator is absent from the conversation.

Republicans today elected Sen. John Thune of South Dakota to the leadership post vacated by John Ensign of Nevada, who stepped down after admitting to an extramarital affair with a campaign aide.

The moving bug has caught the Fixes so we are taking the day off to help lug boxes, move furniture and sweat through several shirts.

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Thune said he's keeping an open mind on whether to support Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor has not become the "political lightning rod" Republican senators hoped for, leaving doubt among some members of the GOP that the nomination process will be controversial enough to help them or hurt Democrats in the 2010 elections, Politico reports.

So the GOP is finally awakening to the fact that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is not as left wing as opponents might have hoped she would be.

Better late than never : Nearly a month after President Barack Obama picked her for the Supreme Court, Republican senators say Sonia Sotomayor isn't serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped she would be.

Manu Raju Manu Raju 2 hrs 38 mins ago Nearly a month after picked her for the Supreme Court , Republican senators say Sonia Sotomayor isn't serving as the political lightning rod some in their party had hoped she would be.

Congressman Jerry Moran introduced legislation that mandates that by July 1, 2010, the federal government must end all ownership of private entities that it acquired under the Troubled Asset Relief Program .

Now I can safely cheer up. Senator John Thune has introduced a bill he calls the "Government Ownership Exit Plan Act of 2009." At the site he has established to promote public support for the bill, he explains its purpose.

U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. has several allies in Congress who want to give private companies, especially small businesses, a better opportunity to handle government jobs.