Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. John Thune [R, SD]

Commerce nominee Pritzker downplays role in management of failed bank

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...whole ($10 million) and the government fund ($296 million), so everyone comes out even,” he said. Ms. Pritzker was asked by Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican, what she would say to the bank depositors who lost money in the collapse. “Senator,

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Pritzker: Obama Seeks Better Ties to Businesses

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...improve his relationship with businesses. During Ms. Pritzker’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.) pointed out that some critics have accused the president of being “antibusiness.” Ms. Pritzker, a

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Senators play nice with Pritzker

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...on the use of subprime lending practices and offshore bank accounts. Continue Reading Pritzker's opening statement Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and the Commerce panel’s ranking member, told reporters after

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Pros and cons on Pritzker as Senate confirmation hearing begins

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...under an expired contract, left Guerrero, Mexico, in 1985 and soon settled in Chicago. She spoke through a Spanish translator. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., questioning Pritzker about the failed Superior Bank, which had engaged heavily in subprime mortgages,

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Thune Grills Pritzker About Subprime Bank Failure

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...Joel B. Pollak 23 May 2013, 8:53 AM PDT post a comment "What do you have to say to the depositors?" Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the Ranking Member on the committee, asked her, asking about those who lost their money and still have not been repaid . Pritzker

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Republicans play nice with Pritzker

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...and the like that you’d swear that they, well, looked forward to working with her. Sure, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) pressed her about a touchy topic for her, the failure in the 1990s of Superior Bank, which her family co-owned. But for the most part, it

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Smooth confirmation hearing for Pritzker

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...allowed to receive 25 percent of any money the government recovered from Ernst & Young, which came to about $31 million. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the top Republican on the Commerce panel, cited criticism from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and o

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Senators Warm to Transportation Nominee

2013-05-23T01:00:00Z

...do that without new revenue," he said, urging Foxx to "goad" Congress into finding more money for transportation. But Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the senior Republican member of the committee, said the responsibility goes both ways, and White House

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Portman, Thune Call for More Hearings on IRS Targeting Scandal

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...Service scandal that involved targeting conservative and religious groups. “We got more non-answers than answers today,” Sen. John Thune of South Dakota told Sean Hannity on Fox News. He was referring to the hearing the committee held earlier on Tue

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Welcome to the Club, Tea Party: Previous Political IRS Scandals

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...don't take risks by doing things that they know will get them fired, or get them disciplined by their superiors." Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said, "It's just hard to figure that there isn't more to this than they are letting on." "How much did the politic

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Live-blogging Anthony Foxx’s Senate Confirmation Hearing for U.S. DOT Secretary

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...John Thune, ranking committee member: 9% of entire nation’s non-ag workforce works in transportation industry. 2:51 Rockefeller: “We’re very good at passing rules, and they never get implemented, and we think they have been because we passed them.

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Mike Rounds Hires Dick Wadhams #SDSEN | Shop Talk

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...to help lead his campaign. The election next year will come a decade after Wadhams’ last triumph in the state — managing now-Sen. John Thune’s 2004 upset of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. “Dick’s reputation as a battle tested strategist,

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Senators warm to transportation nominee

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

Anthony Foxx coasts through hearing to take wheel at Transportation

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...of transportation funding, has lost more than a third of its purchasing power since Congress last raised it 20 years ago. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Congress couldn’t continue to borrow from general taxpayer funds to pay for highways. Lawmakers hav

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Anthony Foxx coasts through hearing to take wheel at Transportation

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

Dick Wadhams Gets Another Shot at Glory

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...Dick Wadhams. Arguably Wadhams' greatest triumph as a campaign manager came in South Dakota, though, when he masterminded Sen. John Thune's 2004 victory. Wadhams gained his reputation after massaging former Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado, one of the leas

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State deflects criticism after absence at ICWA conference

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...reiterated that the state's position hadn't changed. "We follow the federal ICWA law," she said. The offices of U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem said they sent representatives for portions of the conference. Thune or Noem couldn't

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Senior Senate Aide Bingham To Retire

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over NASA. That position has since been filled by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). Before returning to Capitol Hill in 2005, Bingham worked in NASA’s legislative affairs office. In h

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IRS chief and Treasury knew about plan to use planted question to unveil scandal

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...first two possibilities but not the planted question, the Treasury official said. In his testimony Friday, Miller told Sen. John Thune, R-SD, he did not have any discussions with the White House and did not know of anyone who did. The Treasury Departmen

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IRS Scandal: Hatch Accuses IRS Commissioner of 'Lie by Omission' to Congress

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...kept it from people who have an obligation to oversee this matter," he said. Shulman later faced similar questions form Sen. John Thune (R-SD) about why, if he testified in March 2012 and found out about the list of targeted organizations in May 2012, h

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