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August 3, 2020

JBS, the Brazilian meat company, is planning to convert a Colorado lamb processing company to beef, leaving the sheep industry without a processing plant for 350,000 lambs in the western states, according to local media reports.


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Patient Got the Win
July 31, 2020
Weekly Column

With all eyes focused on the pandemic, whether or not kids will head back to school in August, and concerns about unemployment, it's easy to miss the wins of the week.

Issues:Health

July 30, 2020

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) today announced South Dakota's first Congressional App Challenge (CAC), an app competition for students in middle and high school across the country.


July 29, 2020

The results of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's boxed beef and fed cattle price spread investigation, launched by Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue August 2019, has been eagerly awaited by many in the cattle industry.

Issues:Agriculture

July 28, 2020

A presidential task force says the Indian Health Service still needs to improve its child sexual abuse prevention methods after investigating the "institutional and systemic breakdown that failed to prevent and stop" a pediatrician from sexually abusing children on the Pine Ridge Reservation and in Montana for decades.


July 28, 2020

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.-AL) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) introduced the COVID-19 Telehealth Program Extension Act to appropriate additional funds to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) COVID-19 Telehealth Program authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.


July 27, 2020

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Greg Gianforte (R-MT) urged the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to hold convicted pedophile and former Indian Health Service (IHS) pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber fully accountable for his actions. The Representatives demanded HHS take quick action to revoke Mr.


July 24, 2020
Weekly Column

Politicians are people, too. Unfortunately, in today's highly partisan environment that can be hard to remember. Cable news fosters the idea that officeholders, especially those in the other party, are worthy of our derision, rather than our respect or empathy.

Issues:Congress

July 22, 2020

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) issued a statement following the U.S.


July 22, 2020

Today, the House Agriculture Committee's Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations Subcommittee held a hearing to review the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box program. After the hearing, Subcommittee Ranking Member Dusty Johnson (SD-AL) and Committee Ranking Member K. Michael Conaway (TX-11) released the following remarks: