PRess Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) led a resolution slamming the Biden-Harris Administration’s botched rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced legislation to offer a new affordable student loan option that would leverage private financial institutions to cover the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member,...

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. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) introduced legislation that would ban fake meat products from being served in school lunches. The School...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), along with 25 of their colleagues, requested a Government...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced the Allowing for Recreational Resources for Outdoor Wellness (ARROW) Act,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) announced nine South Dakota students he nominated to the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Air Force Academy have...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) reintroduced the Student Veterans Transparency and Protection Act. This bipartisan legislation would...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today reintroduced the Security to Avoid Violence in Educational Settings (SAVES) Act. This legislation would redirect federal funds...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) introduced the National Advisory Council on Indian Education Improvement Act. This legislation would...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced that he has nominated students for appointments to the nation’s service academies. Rounds...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) is currently accepting applications from college students to serve as interns during the spring 2023 semester. Positions are...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced the Security to Avoid Violence in Educational Settings (SAVES) Act. This legislation would redirect federal funds to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today introduced the Student Veterans Transparency and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) introduced the Greatest Generation Memorial Act today to authorize the U.S. Treasury to mint coins...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced that Grace Blote, a senior at St. Thomas More High School, has received a fully qualified offer of appointment to...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced that Camden Johnson, a senior at O’Gorman High School, has received a fully qualified offer of appointment to...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced that Lauren Letner, a senior at Rapid City Stevens High School, has received a fully qualified offer of appointment...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) today announced that the deadline for students to apply for a service academy nomination has been extended to October 30,...