Women In Politics

South Dakota Delegation Announces Emergency Funding to Deal with Possible Grasshopper Infestat
WASHINGTON, DC (June 11, 2010) – U.S. Senators Tim Johnson (D-SD) and John Thune (R-SD) and U.S. Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) today announced that the USDA will provide $10.73 million in emergency Commodity Credit Corporation funding to respond to a possible grasshopper infestation across a number of western states, including South Dakota.

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Toomey’s Pa. ad; GOP fundraising on Obama pick
Republican Pat Toomey sums up his campaign in his first commercial – “more jobs, less government.”

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GFP changes rules for license-list sales after Herseth Sandlin request controversy
SYLVAN LAKE — The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission tightened its rules and its practices for the sales of lists of license holders Thursday.

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Simpson participates in Farm Bill Field Hearing
Washington, DC – Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson assumed the temporary role of a House Agriculture Committee member during a field hearing in Nampa today that explored potential changes to legislation impacting our nation’s agriculture policies.

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Service Member Custody Rights
Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin says it’s important to protect the child custody rights of service members. Recently she helped sponsor legislation aimed at ensuring overseas deployment does not negatively impact the child custody rights of service members.

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GOP voter registration rebounds
The number of registered Republicans in South Dakota is rebounding after falling by more than 10,300 voters following the 2008 general election, state statistics show. Democrats also have lost registered voters since the 2008 election, 9,771 through May 4, according to the latest survey of voter registrations released by the secretary of state’s office. Democratic registrations have been …

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Lisa Twaronite’s This Week in Japan: Bank of Japan’s targeted drip-drops
The Bank of Japan still isn’t dropping money out of helicopters, but it’s hoping that its latest little lending program will work as a guided monetary missile, writes Lisa Twaronite.

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House candidates: Tax cuts, more lending will spur jobs, economy
Massive federal spending on the stimulus package and growing debt have three challengers to U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D., vowing to cut spending, balance the federal budget and expand the economy. They say tax cuts and stability on economic policy, rather than government regulation and new mandates, are needed to put people back to work.

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Financial reform again splits South Dakota senators
The battle over change resumed this week in Washington, D.C., with South Dakota’s two senators again on opposite sides of a key part of President Barack Obama’s agenda.

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S.D. congressional delegation supports disaster aid request
South Dakota’s congressional delegation has sent a letter to President Barack Obama supporting Gov. Michael Rounds’ request for a federal disaster declaration in response to spring flooding.

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