Mr. President, today, I join with my colleague, the junior Senator from South Dakota, in celebrating the birth of our home State, which entered the union 125 years ago on November 2. I'm a fourth generation South Dakotan, and my great…

Mr. President, I also wish to speak in support of S. 1507, the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2013. I am a cosponsor of this bipartisan legislation which passed the House of Representatives earlier this week. This bill would…

Mr. President, as we continue with what will likely be the final legislative week before the elections, it is a good time to take a look back at the year and take stock of where we are and what Congress has accomplished. The House of…

Mr. Dooley, you talked about some of the rail inefficiencies in the chemical industry.

I think that my observation has been, and as I acted once in this arbitration process...

I consider it a failure on my part to expose certain things and techniques.

The numbers I used were based on a September delivery for corn to an elevator in central South Dakota, based on 2013 rates and what we think the 2014 rate is going to be.

I think that the world is gradually going to shift against thinking like yours.

Mr. President, during the past month, two American journalists were murdered by a fanatical Islamic terrorist group, the Islamic State, known as ISIL. The murder of these two journalists is part of a campaign of horrific brutality that has…

I have often said that North Dakota has oil, Wyoming has coal, Montana has some of both, and in South Dakota we have pheasants.

The bill introduced by Senators Rockefeller and Thune will help change that.

I find it hard to believe that we would have seen the kind of action that we needed to see taken had it not been for the agency and for the attention, obviously, the Congress has paid to this issue.

It's time for the STB to refocus its mission on providing regulatory balance to support the businesses and the people who use the rail network.

I appreciate your leadership in those areas where we have worked together and thank you for your years of public service.

the leadership efforts of Senator John Thune... has helped and will be needed moving forward

We had a big problem in South Dakota this last year during the spring. There was a real concern about getting fertilizer shipments there in time to plant the 2014 crop during that short planting window.

Mr. Hamberger, you talked about Chicago. We hear about Chicago all the time.

rail is the most efficient and it's really the only way to get to the market. So if we don't have that, we don't have an economy.