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One of the major provisions in farm bill negotiations is country of origin labeling, or COOL. That would put more information...
Finding a democratic candidate for the South Dakota Senate race may have left some bruised feelings among some top Washington...
Former Congressional candidate Matt Varilek has been named Administrator of Region 8 for the Small Business Administration. H...
Former South Dakota Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin announced today that she would not be a candidate for political o...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Black Hills Cemetery Act, legislation introduced by Rep. Kristi Noem in January....
A group of U.S. Senators have written the Acting U.S. Trade Representative and Acting Secretary of Commerce asking them to re...
The Obama Administration is again talking about starting another round of Base Reduction And Closure negotiations. That would...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson says the sides are moving further apart in Congress, and that worries him.Johnson recently a...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson announced last week that he would not run for a fourth term next year. He says he is fine wi...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson says he is ready to move on as he finishes his third term in the US Senate.He announced last...
With the announced retirement of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson, state democrats will have to find candidates for three hig...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, held a field hearin...
The retirement of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson will push the 2014 Senate race into the national spotlight.James Hohmann, ...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson returned to Vermillion to “close the circle” on his political career.Johnson was...
Tuesday, South Dakota’s Senior Senator Tim Johnson will announce his intentions for a Senate run in 2014. News outlets ...
Both democrats and republicans in Washington have introduced budget resolutions in the past week, so the debate over taxes an...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson says he has not yet made a decision on a re-election bid next year, but he is close.Johnson ...
North Dakota Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota has introduced a bill to fix the national school lunch program. It would lif...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson questioned Secretary of Interior Nominee, Sally Jewell, during the Energy and Natural Resour...
A major article on the national web site Politico.com outlines the dynamics shaping up for the 2014 South Dakota Senate race....
The Federal Communications Commission is continuing an investigation of long distance phone providers that are failing to pro...
A bi partisan group of Senators including Tim Johnson and John Thune are calling on USDA and the U.S. Trade Representative&rs...
Congress finally approved a fifty billion dollar disaster relief package for damages related to Hurricane Sandy.During final ...
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin announced last weekend that he would not run for re-election in 2014. He said he wanted to give poten...
A group of eight Senators has come up with a possible plan to reform US immigration policy.South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson s...
President Obama will soon send the Senate several nominations to his Cabinet, including White House staffer Jack Lew as Secre...
Congress and the President are on a collision course on the debt ceiling. The federal government needs that debt number incre...
Social Security benefits have entered into discussions over the fiscal cliff. The Obama Administration has suggested using a ...
Social Security benefits have entered into discussions over the fiscal cliff.The Obama Administration has suggested using a &...
With both houses of Congress heading home for Christmas, all work will halt until late next week.Among the programs that will...
Debate over possible gun control legislation has intensified following the deadly shootings at the Sandy Hook School in Conne...
President Obama continues to push for a tax increase on the top two percent of taxpayers as part of his plan to avoid the fis...
President Obama is standing firm on his proposal that tax rates rise on the richest two percent of Americans.South Dakota Sen...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson says he has not decided on a re-election run in 2014.Last week, as former Governor Mike Roun...
The announcement of former Governor Mike Rounds that he will seek the republican Senate nomination in 2014 has sparked some q...
Former South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds says he will run for the republican nomination for the US Senate in 2014. He was mak...
Funeral services for former South Dakota Senator George McGovern will be held this afternoon (Friday) at the Washington Pavil...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson toured the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System treatment plant Monday.The plant located abou...
Last week, a group of Senators led by South Dakota’s John Thune and Tim Johnson sent a letter to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsa...
South Dakota Senators John Thune and Tim Johnson and 6 others are asking Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack to call on GIPSA to investi...
Former South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has formed an “exploratory committee” to look at the possibility of a ru...
When many future political openings are discussed, the name of South Dakota US Attorney Brendan Johnson often comes up.While ...
An economic report for the Mid America region released this week showed a sharp drop in future economic prospects.One reason ...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson today announced USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack is relaxing regulations in order for livestock pr...
The Senate Banking Committee has stopped short of starting an active investigation into interest rate fixing by major banks t...
The Bush era tax cuts will expire at the end of the year, and Congress is debating how much, if any of the cuts will continue...
Democrat Senators led by South Dakota’s Tim Johnson and Montana’s Max Baucus have introduced stand-alone legislat...
The Senate passed farm bill includes farm program payments limits offered by Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Tim Johnson ...
Local banks are again watching nervously from the sidelines as big banks are under the microscope in Washington.JP Morgan Cha...
Officials from JP Morgan Chase were in front of the Senate Banking Committee yesterday with the hearing chaired by South Dako...
Yesterday, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson introduced an amendment to the farm bill he says will save the government $1.2 bil...
South Dakota democrats will choose their Congressional candidate in the primary election Tuesday.Jeff Barth and Matt Varilek,...
Action on the farm bill is coming closer and closer with a potential June 5 vote looming. Southern producers concerns over th...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson took questions from reporters during an appearance in Vermillion. He was asked where he stoo...
Members of Congress will get an opportunity over the next few weeks to hear more about banks and proposed new regulations. So...
The Senate this week passed a bill that reauthorizes the Export-Import Bank, and sent it to the President. The bill would rai...
In what is seen as largely a symbolic vote the US Senate this week rejected the so called “Buffett rule” that wou...
South Dakota Senators Tim Johnson and John Thune and Representative Kristi Noem have received word from the Secretary of the ...
The Director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was in Sioux Falls Wednesday at the invitation of Senator Ti...
Members of the 114th Fighter Wing of the South Dakota Air National Guard were activated in ceremonies Monday morning in Sioux...
The Organization for Competitive Markets is supporting efforts in the Senate and House to ban packer ownership of livestock. ...
Partisan disagreements led to the failure of the Senate to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank last week. The bank is a self-f...
Congress is still contending with the details of an extension to the transportation bill, which funds most road, bridge, airp...
Legislation that would place a hard cap on farm payments and close long abused and well documented loopholes in the farm prog...
There is much grumbling as gas prices continue to creep upward, in some cases approaching four dollars a gallon. There is als...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson announced last week that the state will get over twenty one million dollars from the Departm...
While President Obama laid out a list of issues in his State of the Union speech, many probably will not see any action this ...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has said that the City of Sioux Falls could lose a thirty five million dollar federal earmar...
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has said that the City of Sioux Falls could lose a thirty five million dollar federal earmar...
The US Senate returns to work next week in time for the Presidents State of the Union speech. South Dakota Senator Tim Johnso...
South Dakota’s senior Senator is not optimistic about the chances of Congress coming together on meaningful legislation...
Senator Tim Johnson toured the Builders Choice facility in Vermillion yesterday (Tuesday). The company builds pre fab housing...
The extension of the pay roll tax cut is among a number of issues waiting action by Congress before they leave town, possibly...
