John Thune
John Thune
John Randolph Thuneis the senior United States Senator from South Dakota and a member of the Republican Party. He previously served as a United States Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district. He became South Dakota's Senior senator with the retirement of Tim Johnson in 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 December 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Today the voters of South Dakota spoke and I am enormously grateful that they have given me the opportunity to serve as their next United States senator,
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I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.
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There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.
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When you're the president of the United States and you know that the biggest issue facing you is this cliff that we're about ready to head over if we don't get this spending and debt situation under control, it's very irresponsible not to take the action that is necessary to fix the problem.
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With this much clutter out there and this much money being spent on the airwaves, the candidates start losing control of the message,
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This was not a good time to close a number of these installations,
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We really don't know right now what's going on, on the ground over there. It changes by the hour, with respect to this constitution,
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The fact he is doing this at the very time the Republican convention is going on tells me that his political situation is becoming very difficult, ... The Daschle campaign is very desperate right now.
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My meeting with Judge Roberts today only furthered my high opinion of him and my confidence in his ability to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court, ... This is a man of high moral character and sound legal judgment, who has a profound respect for the Constitution and the role he is ready to assume.
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I think most people are granting her, according her, the benefit of the doubt, subject to the time she has to appear before the committee to make her case in person,
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I think a lot of the co-sponsors of it probably are less inclined because of the commission's actions.
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you can go too far with that. You can overreach, and it can backfire.
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We can revel in this for a minute, because it's been a long, hard fight. But we need to start taking steps now to continue to work to BRAC-proof Ellsworth. In 10 years, they might come back and take another bite of the apple.