Items Tagged with 'John Thune'

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services is poised for a full Senate vote after the Senate Finance Committee favorably reported him Tuesday. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson is laying out an ambitious schedule for enacting President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda.

Republicans are back in charge on both sides of Congress for the first time in six years, facing pressure to make good on President-elect Donald Trump’s tax and border policies and to prepare his slate of nominees for quick confirmation.

Farm groups have a lot to cheer in the massive year-end funding bill that congressional leaders finally released Tuesday evening. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson wants to take up a new farm bill early in 2025, and he says he's encouraging farm groups to "relax" about RFK Jr.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday night that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will be nominated as interior secretary. Farm groups will be counting on the administration to roll back a series of regulations at Interior.

John Thune’s elevation to Senate Republican leader is being welcomed by many ag, biofuel and conservation groups. No Senate majority or minority leader has come to the job with a background in ag and biofuel policy as deep as the South Dakotan’s since, well, Thune unseated then-Democratic leader Tom Daschle in 2004.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune, who has a deep background in agriculture policy, as the chamber's next majority leader. Thune, who is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and currently holds the No. 2 GOP role as minority whip, defeated Texas Sen. John Cornyn on the second ballot.

Senate Republicans are slated to pick their new party leadership this morning in a closed-door, secret ballot election.