John Thune
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"John Randolph Thune" is the senior United States Senate/United States Senator from South Dakota and a member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party. He previously served as a United States House of Representatives/United States Representative for . He became South Dakota's Senior senator with the retirement of Tim Johnson (South Dakota politician)/Tim Johnson in 2015.

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We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

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We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.

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I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

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Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

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We need to stop the quibbling, the partisan games, and political brinkmanship to find a solution that saves and strengthens Social Security for the future.

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You're trying to pull together a lot of different people, a lot of different factions ... but I'm hopeful that when it's all said and done that they'll have a constitution that ultimately will be ratified by their government.

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There is no indication that there was any certainty about when this will happen. And to me it sounds like a bunch of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo about the process that they have in that country [Japan}.

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Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.

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Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

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