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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) is seeking internship applications for the spring in his Washington, D.C., Rapid City, Aberdeen, and Sioux Falls offices.
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Ten years ago, Winter Storm Atlas came bearing down across western South Dakota. It brought record amounts of snow for the month of October, dumping 55 inches over Lead, South Dakota. Tens of thousands of livestock tragically perished in the storm, and many areas had power outages that lasted a week or longer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today announced that they are accepting applications to the U.S. service academies for the class entering in the summer of 2024.
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Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) spoke in support of historic federal spending cuts. House Republicans are voting on a series of individual appropriations bills ahead of the funding deadline on September 30th. These bills return many non-defense, non-border security programs back to pre-Covid levels.
BIG Update Our national debt is skyrocketing. At this rate, it’s going to increase by $20 trillion in the next ten years. This is a crisis. If we don’t act now, we know the impact it’ll have on Americans: |
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) congratulated Zach and Katie Peterson of Aberdeen for being selected as South Dakota’s 2023 Angels in Adoption honorees.
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the U.S. House by unanimous consent. This bill preserves a section of the land where hundreds of Lakota Indians were massacred by the U.S. Army. U.S.
The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the U.S. House by unanimous consent. The bill introduced by U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) in May aims to preserve a section of land where the U.S. Army massacred hundreds of Lakota Indians. Representative Johnson worked closely with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe for months to develop the bill. The bill unanimously passed the House Natural Resources Committee in June.
Every year, congress passes appropriation bills setting the spending levels for each federal agency. With the federal fiscal year starting Oct. 1, the deadline is fast approaching to pass those bills and avoid a government shutdown.
“The Senate and the House have drastically different ideas on how our government should be funded,” said South Dakota’s lone representative, Dusty Johnson.