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Two members of South Dakota's congressional delegation are urging US Attorney General Merrick Garland to continue the US Department of Justice investigation into the nation's four biggest meatpackers.
In a bicameral letter, Sen. John Thune and Rep. Dusty Johnson, along with several of their colleagues, also requested that DOJ provide Congress with updates on its investigation and encouraged ongoing vigilance on this issue.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson released a video that may reflect how a lot of us feel.
The video shows the congressman giving advice on what we can do with masks when they are longer needed. The video shows Johnson using his old mask as a drink cuzzi, a cleaning cloth and a pocket square to name a few uses. All set to Taylor Swift's "Shake it off."
Johnson hasn't always been so nonchalant about mask wearing, for instance this video from November of last year, during the height of the pandemic.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., and Sen. Roger Marshall R-Kansas, introduced Tuesday the bicameral Get Americans Back to Work Act, a bill to remove the federal supplemental unemployment benefit by June 30.
Job openings have reached a record high of 8.1 million and more than 35% of Americans are fully vaccinated. According to the recent jobs report, employment rose by only 266,000 jobs in April — far below the estimated 1 million new jobs projected by economists for April.
The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate is expected to take its first step forward on President Joe Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure package next week, while Senate Republicans are preparing a narrower proposal less than one-third the size.
Members of the House Biofuels Caucus, led by Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., on April 8 sent a letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan urging the agency to prioritize the Renewable Fuel Standard and the use of higher blends of ethanol and biodiesel.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., was named the most effective Republican for agriculture issues by the Center for Effective Lawmaking, a joint project of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, among others.
The nonpartisan group also listed Johnson as tied for third on effectiveness for Native American policy issues.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson received a shot for the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota as part of an effort to promote widespread vaccinations in order to extinguish the pandemic.
"This is how we get back to normal," Johnson, a Republican, said shortly after receiving the shot at a Sanford Health facility.
Two members of Congress toured the Neiman Enterprises saw mill in Hill City and also met with Black Hills National Forest officials Tuesday morning to try to get a better understanding on job loss in the timber industry, while trying to balance a healthy ecosystem.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Indian Health Services officials said Tuesday that a former pediatrician sentenced for sexually abusing boys on two reservations has been stripped of his estimated $100,000-a-year pension.
Stanley Weber was convicted in Montana and South Dakota on numerous charges, including aggravated sexual abuse, for incidents that happened three decades ago on the Blackfeet and Pine Ridge reservations. He is serving life without parole at a federal prison.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., told Newsmax TV on Tuesday that President Joe Biden "is making a terrible decision" in not allowing a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore on the Fourth of July.
"President Biden is making a terrible decision here," Johnson told "The National Report." "There isn't a lot that all of America agrees on these days, but you could get most of us behind the idea of blowing stuff up in the air before ... Mount Rushmore."