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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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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South Dakota legislators encourage Air Force officials to pick Ellsworth
U.S. Sens. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and John Thune, R-S.D., and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D., sent a letter to Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley and Air Force chief of staff Norton A. Schwartz promoting South Dakota’s Ellsworth Air Force Base as a potential base for MQ-1 and MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft operations. A recently concluded Air Force study names Ellsworth as one of …

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Saturday’s Dakota Relays results
100 – Gabriel Williams (South Dakota) 11.85, Ashley Tingelstad (North Dakota St.) 11.86, Brittany Page (NDSU) 11.90, Jenessa Filler (USD) 12.13, Whitney Carlson (NDSU) 12.14, Kim Markham (South Dakota St.) 12.42, Megan Bren (SDSU) 12.42, Christina Roberts (USD) 12.48.

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Rasmussen Reports: race for congress still likely close in South Dakota
Rasmussen Reports’ phone poll shows Stephanie Herseth Sandlin leading Nelson 45-41%.

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