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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For that, all South Dakotans owe him a big debt of gratitude, ... I wish him and his family the very best in the future.
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I called him this morning to thank him, and I said that we need to think about adding another face to Mount Rushmore, ... He talked to virtually everybody and, as the former head of the Air Combat Command, brought tremendous credibility.
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That's something that everybody has to look at and say, 'Well, what's the end game here? If in fact she will not survive this process, what's plan B?
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The issue is the future of Social Security. The program as we know it today will not last. It is headed for bankruptcy.
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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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I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.
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Social Security is an extremely complicated program.
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Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
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I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
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Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.
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I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.
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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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There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.