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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President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow if you're mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.
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We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II.
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We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.
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We prayed a lot about it as did a lot of other people and finally concluded that this was something that we needed to do.
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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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