John Thune

I think it is important--you were talking about taxpayer dollars here--that we make sure that we are doing everything to see that they are spent wisely and well.

Thank you for the opportunity to appear today and provide an update on this important matter.

Promoting and ensuring vehicle safety is a responsibility shared by auto makers, suppliers, government and consumers.

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Enhancing connections between highway and rail systems and port infrastructure will be a key part of ensuring the first and last mile of transportation infrastructure supports growing demand.

They're going to try to jam us on everything.

We cannot just keep, as a matter of practice, borrowing money from the general fund and handing the bill to our children and grandchildren.

When businesses are restrained by regulatory overreach, they cannot expand, jobs are put at risk and innovation is stifled.

The bipartisan CASE Act strikes a balance between economic growth and environmental progress.

The CASE Act simply requires EPA to determine the impact of new clean air standards on the economy and jobs.

The cost of a lower smog standard has hardly lessened and the hit this could have on manufacturing and other economic sectors nationwide would be unprecedented.

The President rejected it then because, as he said, our economy could not handle the burden of its substantial price tag.

This Senator feels like we ought to get budget certainty and repeal sequestration.

The Department of Defense has visited me, and they do not want any of this privatization.

We must ensure that our defense interests are not harmed by removing the government from air traffic control.

I hope that as we work through reauthorization this year, that we focus and get answers to questions about CFTC rulemaking.

I am sure this Congress is not willing to delegate its authority, or our authority, to the Financial Stability Board or anyone else.

I think it is fair to say in agriculture today that the margins are slim to nonexistent.

We have got an awful lot of burdensome reporting requirements, unnecessary over-regulation.

Yesterday I missed the vote on S. Con. Res. 16, which states U.S. policy on the release of American citizens in Iran, because I was touring tornado damage in Delmont, in my home State of South Dakota. Had I been able to be here, I would…

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I have serious concerns about the error rates in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, which for the 2013 and 2014 school year were 15.8 percent and 23.1 percent, respectively.

I appreciate you and Ranking Member Stabenow holding this hearing today, and as we do prepare to reauthorize the child nutrition legislation this coming year, we need to, I think, take an objective and bipartisan critical assessment of the…

But, when we have programs with error rates that are $2.7 billion just for one school year, we simply have got to figure out how to put this money to better use.

Obviously, no one in this room wants any child to go hungry. We all know there are legitimate needs for food assistance.