Thune Nominations Hearing Statement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s hearing to consider nominees to the Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission: Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing to consider […]
Thune Transportation Reauthorization Hearing Statement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s “Surface Transportation Reauthorization: Progress, Challenges, and Next Steps” hearing: Thank you Mr. Chairman for holding this hearing today. I would like to welcome Secretary Foxx back to the committee. […]
Commerce Committee Passes Thune, Klobuchar Bill to Address Propane and Heating Fuel Shortages
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today praised the committee’s approval of their legislation to better prepare for propane and heating fuel shortages and regional supply disruptions. A slightly modified version of Thune and Klobuchar’s Reliable Home Heating Act (S. […]
Thune Executive Session Opening Statement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s Executive Session: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, we will consider a number of important measures today. Understandably, much of the attention has been on the advanced manufacturing and forensic science […]
Thune Statement on Commerce Committee Nomination Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, submitted for the record the following prepared remarks at today’s full committee hearing on the nominations of Vice Admiral Paul Zukunft to be Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and Elliot Kaye and Joseph Mohorovic to be […]
Thune Statement on the Rail Safety Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, submitted for the record the following prepared remarks at today’s “Enhancing our Rail Safety: Current Challenges for Passenger and Freight Rail” Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Subcommittee hearing: Thank you Senator Blumenthal, and […]
Thune Introduces Legislation to Protect Olympic and Paralympic Medalists from Federal Tax
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced bipartisan legislation (S. 2026) to exempt Olympic and Paralympic medalists from being taxed by the Internal Revenue Service on the medals and cash prizes they win at the Olympics. “Too often the U.S. tax […]
Thune Statement on McSweeny and O’Rielly Nomination Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s full committee hearing on the nominations of Terrell McSweeny to the Federal Trade Commission and Michael O’Rielly to the Federal Communications Commission: Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this […]
Thune Statement on Scheduled Nomination Markup
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, issued the following statement on the announced business meeting on Monday, June 10th, for the consideration of the nominations of Anthony Foxx for Secretary of Transportation and Penny Pritzker for Secretary of Commerce: “I appreciate Mayor […]
Sen. Hutchison Wins Passage of Landmark Bus Safety Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) today applauded the passage of the bipartisan bill, The Motorcoach Enhanced Safety Act of 2011, introduced by Senators Hutchison and Sherrod Brown. The landmark legislation will dramatically improve bus and motorcoach safety standards. “Too many lives have been wasted in tragedies that are entirely preventable because of […]