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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Chairman of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, and U.S. Representative Mike Flood (R-Neb.),...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today issued a statement following the Senate’s passage of the President’s budget rescissions request. The bill as amended now heads...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, released the following...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) today introduced the Reducing Homelessness Through Program Reform...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today released the following statement after the reconciliation bill passed the Senate by a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Vance...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today sent an invitation to President Donald Trump inviting him to attend the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. In...

WASHINGTON – This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1713, the Agricultural Risk Review Act of 2025, introduced by Representative Frank Lucas (R-Okla.),...

PIERRE – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) is currently accepting applications from college students to serve as interns during the fall 2025 semester. Positions are available in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today reintroduced the USA Beef Act, legislation to limit the use of the “Product of USA” label only to beef products that are born,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement: “Iran has been financing Hamas terrorists for decades, in addition to supplying them with...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins asking her to develop a framework for reinstating Mandatory...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced that nine South Dakota students he nominated to the four U.S. Service Academies have accepted their offers to join...

HURON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) spoke at a ceremony to dedicate the United States Postal Service (USPS) office in Huron as the First Lieutenant Thomas Michael Martin Post...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) asked Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum about support for a tribal law enforcement training center in the Great Plains...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today sent a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Brooke Rollins urging her to develop an emergency plan...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) asked Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about a mining research grant for the South Dakota School of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today sent a letter to Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum and Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced Janet Alkire, Chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, before her testimony in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the Bolstering Research and Innovation Now (BRAIN) Act, legislation to advance research...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum requesting the Department of Interior to consider establishing a...