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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) today introduced legislation that would require the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to consider...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) today introduced legislation to reauthorize the Reclamation Rural Water Supply Act of 2006....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) released the following statement after the verdict was announced in Former President Trump’s New York trial:  “This verdict probably...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) recently called on the Biden administration to increase its timber harvesting targets in the Black Hills...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and his bipartisan Senate AI Working Group recently released a roadmap for artificial intelligence. This report summarizes the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on Investment and Insurance, and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today led a bipartisan group of colleagues in introducing a Sense of the Senate resolution to reject the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and his colleagues on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today unanimously passed the annual Intelligence Authorization Act...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today introduced the bipartisan Deliver for Democracy Act, legislation that would help rural newspaper...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (SVAC), discussed the expansion of VA facilities in Hot Springs, South Dakota...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) recently led 10 of their Senate colleagues in requesting funding for tribal law enforcement...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined Stuart Varney on Fox Business’ Varney & Co. to discuss the Biden Administration’s decision to pause munitions aid to...

WASHINGTON – The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group comprised of Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and...

WASHINGTON – The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has designated U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) as a 2024 Fiscal Hero. This award honors lawmakers who prioritize...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) issued the following statement after the United States Senate passed legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today introduced legislation that would prevent federal government overreach on the operations of South Dakota farmers and ranchers....

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed the Stop Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act led by U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.). The...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today announced the introduction of the AI Grand Challenges Act, a bipartisan...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today released the following statement after voting for H.R.815, otherwise known as the National Security Act. The bill passed 79-18...