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WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement after voting that an impeachment trial for a former president is unconstitutional. “After...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced that Mitchell Walker, a senior at Sioux Falls Christian High School, has received a fully qualified offer of...

I was talking to a friend the other day about the effectiveness of online advertisements. When you’re scrolling through social media, you’ll often see ads for products...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced his membership on five key committees in the 117th Congress: Armed Services Foreign Relations Banking, Housing...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) issued the following statement today following a discussion with Tom Vilsack, who President Biden recently nominated to be...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement regarding a meeting he and nine of his Republican colleagues participated in with...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Angus King (I-Maine) reintroduced the New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act. The bipartisan bill would allow...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) issued the following statement today on executive actions taken by President Joe Biden to expand Obamacare and allow taxpayer...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and a number of their colleagues...

WASHINGTON –U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Angus King (I-Maine) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called on...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, today questioned Denis McDonough, nominee to be Secretary of the...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today joined 44 of his Senate colleagues in declaring the impeachment trial of Donald Trump unconstitutional on the grounds that he...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) to introduce legislation establishing the 2020 Bipartisan Advisory Committee to examine the...

Emotions have been running high across our great country. Both sides, all sides need to take a breath.    A member of my staff showed me a Facebook squabble taking place...

WASHINGTON —U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today voted to confirm General Lloyd Austin to be the Secretary of Defense....

WASHINGTON —U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) made the following statement on the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris: “The peaceful...

PIERRE—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and a group of senators in a letter urging U.S. Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza to...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) made the following statement on the formal count of the Electoral College votes by Congress: “Going into the joint session, I...

  WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) made the following statement on today’s attack on the U.S. Capitol:   "As a nation, we should stand together in...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) made the following statement on tomorrow’s formal count of the Electoral College votes by Congress: “Tomorrow’s...