"I am very pleased today to be able to introduce to this Committee again Commissioner Summer Mersinger."
"I think it is very important to take a tech-neutral approach with respect to broadband deployment."
"I do think that the United States needs to stay in a lead role."
"I think it is really important, and there is a bipartisan bill that I am working on that is focused on putting the right guardrails in place for the highest impact AI systems while also, at the same t..."
"It has been remarkable just the progress we have already made in precision agriculture."
"There are tens of billions of dollars available, and yet I met last week, or the week before, with our independent telephone co-ops in South Dakota, and not a single one was applying for any of that m..."
"Thank you to you and to him for working and facilitating an extension of the farm bill."
"I am pleased that this year's Senate National Defense Authorization Act includes Senator Rounds' amendment to prohibit China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea from purchasing U.S. agricultural land and b..."
"We must safeguard U.S. farmland, and food security is a critical component of national security."
"food security is a critical component of national security, and we need to make sure that foreign countries do not hold an undue influence over our food supply."
"Our South Dakota Senators, Mike Rounds and John Thune, who offered this Senate companion bill to restore our lands to 'Indian country' status with reference to our 1868 Treaty deserve our gratitude."