Welcome to a new weekly feature reviewing South Dakotans in the federal government, where we keep an eye on Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds, Rep. Dusty Johnson and Secretary of the Department of ...

South Dakota Senator and US Senate Majority Leader John Thune this week introduced the American Beef Labeling Act, which would re-instate mandatory Country of Origin Labeling for beef through Senate ...

South Dakota Senator and Senate Majority Leader John Thune and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker reintroduced bipartisan ...

Speaker Mike Johnson had GOP lawmakers working into the night ahead of a self-imposed Friday deadline to produce the package.

Some Republican lawmakers are trying to make the petition process more difficult in South Dakota, where a ballot initiative process allows residents to adopt new laws. One proposal in the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is gonna bear the brunt of Trump’s tariffs ... Thune’s constituents in his home state of ...

High Plains farmers and ranchers have faced a difficult period and a new farm bill should reflect that, Sen. John Thune ...

Thune knows the stakes all too well: Retaliatory tariffs during Trump’s 2018 trade war with China crippled South Dakota’s agriculture-dependent ... But members of Thune’s leadership team — including ...

Trump is eager to threaten economic warfare as he tries to force concessions from Canada and Mexico — he cited drug trafficking and trade deficits in his comments Thursday. But even the risk of new ...

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Department of Interior. During his ...

John Thune represents South Dakota in the U.S. Senate and is the Senate Republican whip. Nitpicking the word ‘sued’ ignores the basic truth: Becerra spent years challenging Catholic nuns ...

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed former Rep. Sean Duffy as the next secretary of transportation on Tuesday, marking a return to public office for the northwestern Wisconsin Republican after a ...