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Thune, John

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● R  ·  SEN  ·  South Dakota
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spoke · 1 of 2 transcribed hearings
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speaking time on the record
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Thune, John. Good. Well, thank you, and I appreciate the opportunity to actually get this bill out of the committee. This is an important step forward. A lot of the farm bill was addressed last year. We did the safety net programs, we did crop insurance, ARC, PLC, conservation, disaster programs. But there are p...

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Sep 30, 2026·3:00 PM
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To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.
Sep 29, 2026·3:00 PM
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Business meeting to consider the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, and Ge Bai, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Health and Human Services, James Gadwood, of Maryland, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury, and Andrew A. De Mello, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court.
Sep 24, 2026·10:00 AM
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To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.
Sep 23, 2026·3:00 PM
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Hearings to examine the nominations of Danielle Thumann Severs, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, and Leslie Becera, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation.
Sep 17, 2026·10:30 AM
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To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.
Sep 16, 2026·3:00 PM
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Business meeting to consider S.3467, to reauthorize the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, S.3929, to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to acquire and install certified airborne position reference tools at air traffic control towers, S.4573, to designate the Great Lakes Commission as a Regional Great Lakes Partnership, S.4749, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to create a Federal cause of action to address jawboning, S.4938, to reduce trawl gear impacts on bycatch and seafloor habitat in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska, to establish gear performance standards, seafloor contact detection, and salmon excluder requirements, to improve Council transparency and participation, to prioritize ecosystem analyses, to modernize electronic monitoring, to prohibit unsustainable foreign seafood imports, and to establish a Bycatch Mitigation and Habitat Protection Assistance Fund, S.4950, to amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to codify the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an initiative to support the development of emergency communication and tracking technologies, S.5188, to amend the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 to establish requirements for unified boxing organizations and to further enhance the well-being of professional boxers, S.5224, to improve training for airport drivers in the movement area at commercial service airports through the establishment of a task force and the use of technology, H.R.7022, to provide for the transmission of emergency alerts by satellite, and promotions in the Coast Guard.
Sep 16, 2026·10:00 AM ·1h 12m ·23 speakers
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To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.
Sep 15, 2026·3:00 PM
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Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, and Ge Bai, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Health and Human Services, James Gadwood, of Maryland, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury, and Andrew A. De Mello, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of fifteen years.
Sep 15, 2026·10:00 AM
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