Rep. Kristi Noem's bill to exempt dust from the Clean Air Act gets a hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. Expect the Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to eat it up. Then expect Senator Tim Johnson to kick…
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In good news, the Senate Appropriations Committee (including our Senator Tim Johnson) approved an agriculture budget that would allow the rulemaking process for the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Act (GIPSA) to go ahead. The House earlier this summer stripped…
Senator Tim Johnson takes a little heat from the Aberdeen American News for telling the press not to publicize his visit to Aberdeen yesterday. I agree: Tim, you don't make my job easy when you create any appearance of keeping…
South Dakota's Congressional delegation has a penchant for fighting rules that don't exist and may never exist. A couple years ago, Senator John Thune raised a stink over regulations on livestock methane emission, regulations that the EPA never proposed. Congresswoman…
A number of folks have asked just what the heck I was doing in Washington, D.C. last week. Besides taking fun pictures for my little one, I was actually politicking. Dakota Rural Action sent me out to attend the White…
Senator Tim Johnson sees an easy way to shave another $4 billion a year off the federal budget: stop subsidizing the richest oil companies: "High-priced oil threatens both our energy and economic security. We have a homegrown solution — ethanol,"…
Senator Tim Johnson was on SDPB Dakota Midday Tuesday insisting that he had no choice but to vote for the $858 billion Stimulus II that the Republican leadership and President Obama worked out. Funny: Senator Tom Harkin from Iowa thought…