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Speaker Mike Johnson is the face of GOP leadership. But another man with the same last name is quietly helping shape a legislative agenda to power Republicans through the election and beyond.
WOONSOCKET, S.D. — When Huron resident Franklin Rau returned from Vietnam in 1970, he was met not with gratitude, but with hostility.
Dusty Johnson, a Republican, represents South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives. This piece first appeared in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
A while back, I was welcoming home a National Guard unit that had been overseas. After the ceremony, a sergeant who had been deployed three times, including twice to an active combat zone, thanked me for my service, saying he couldn’t imagine a post so difficult.
U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) secured several wins for tribal communities in the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations package.
You’ve been hearing it all year, 2024 is an election year, and with that comes campaigning, voter anxiety, and election safety issues.
Representative Dusty Johnson has been an avid proponent for election safety, heavily pushing for better restrictions when it comes to undocumented people being allowed to vote in elections.
U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson is now a member of the Fentanyl Policy Working Group, a part of Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party which works to address China’s part in the production of illegal fentanyl coming into the United States.
Gov. Kristi Noem held a press briefing in Dakota Dunes on Monday to give an update about storms and flooding in southeast South Dakota.
Rep. Dusty Johnson and leaders involved with emergency response also spoke at the press briefing in North Sioux City, South Dakota.
Gov. Noem said we all need to respect flood waters, and residents are asked to stay out of flooded areas.
Noem highlighted how quickly things can turn or worsen, noting a levee had to be built within a few hours this weekend.
The Memorial Day holiday usually begins the election-year countdown sprint where partisan politics typically overshadow serious legislation. But for Republicans in the House, last week ended with a victory: After more than 13 hours of markup last Thursday, the House Agriculture Committee passed their version of the farm bill.
A provision from legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) last week passed the U.S. House Armed Services Committee as part of the annual defense bill.
The House Ag Committee has passed their version of the next five-year farm bill, but congressional leaders are less than hopeful the bill will get across the finish line before a new fall deadline. South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson, one of the six main authors of the House version, says the bill includes several things he heard while holding listening sessions back home in South Dakota.