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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Nov 15, 2022

The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Baldwin). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 62, nays 36, as follows…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Nov 15, 2022

I want to begin my remarks this morning by first expressing my profound gratitude to the people of South Dakota for once again trusting me to serve as their Senator. I am deeply grateful to live in South Dakota and to represent the…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Nov 15, 2022

The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse).- The result was announced--yeas 55, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 354 Ex.] YEAS--55 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Nov 14, 2022

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Sasse). The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 51, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 353 Leg.] YEAS--51 Baldwin…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 29, 2022

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 29, 2022

yesterday I came down to the floor to talk about where we are after nearly 2 years of Democrat control of Congress and the White House. We are, as I noted, in the midst of an inflation crisis with no end in sight. Our economy is weakening…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 29, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: s. 5023 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 29, 2022

earlier this week, more than 71 years after he was killed in the Korean war, U.S. Army Private First Class Melvin J. Little Bear was returned home to McLaughlin, SD. In 1951, Private First Class Little Bear, a native of Standing Rock, was…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 29, 2022

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Portman), and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio). Further, if present and voting the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee) would have voted…

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Dusty Johnson
@dustyjohnson· Republican · SD· Sep 28, 2022

again, I find that unfortunate. I would hope that the Senator from Illinois would not at least object to Senator Grassley coming on the floor looking for another extension of this. Again, the DEA Administrator says this is vital. So I hope…

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Dusty Johnson
@dustyjohnson· Republican · SD· Sep 28, 2022

So I want to just make the point that there is nothing in the SOFA Act that would prevent that research from continuing, and if a molecule was found that is helpful, it can be scheduled separately. This is just targeting the deadly drugs…

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Dusty Johnson
@dustyjohnson· Republican · SD· Sep 28, 2022

Fentanyl is being used in medicine today, and it is on schedule II. So they can do the research off of that drug on schedule II. There is nothing preventing that--nothing whatsoever.

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Dusty Johnson
@dustyjohnson· Republican · SD· Sep 28, 2022

I rise today to tell a story of one family's tragedy but also of two wonderful people who turned that tragedy into helping others and finding solutions. On May 15, 2014, a 19-year-old Wisconsinite named Archie Badura died of a fentanyl…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 28, 2022

I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 4969 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

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Dusty Johnson
@dustyjohnson· Republican · SD· Sep 28, 2022

I want to thank the gentlewoman and thank the gentleman for their words of support for this piece of legislation. I ask all my colleagues to support my bill. It would do exactly as the previous two speakers said. It would make things a lot…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 28, 2022

we are coming up now on 2 years of Democratic governance here in Washington, 2 years in which Democrats have controlled Congress and the White House, and the result of their 2 years in power is not encouraging. Economic insecurity is…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 27, 2022

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), and the Senator from…

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Sep 22, 2022

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Crapo) and the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee). The result was announced--yeas 60, nays 36, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 347 Ex.] YEAS--60 Barrasso Bennet Blackburn…

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