Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin News Archives

Senator John Thune isn't holding out much hope that H1N1 vaccines will be widely available in South Dakota anytime soon.

Blue Dogs demand deficit, cost-curve answers - Glenn Thrush: Blue Dogs demand deficit, cost-curve answers October 29, 2009 Categories: Health Care Blue Dogs demand deficit, cost-curve answers A pack of Blue Dog Democrats, leery of the House health care bill's price tag, have sent a long list of detailed questions to the Congressional Budget Office ...

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: GOULDING VERDICT Jury convicts man of murder RAPID CITY, S.D. A jury rejected Robert Goulding's argument of an assisted suicide and convicted him of first-degree murder after about 30 minutes of deliberation Thursday.

As South Dakota Democrats scan the horizon for a challenger to Sen. John Thune next year, one name starting to appear has a familiar ring to it.

Advanced digital electric meters are coming for customers of Black Hills Power and Sioux Valley Southwestern Electric Cooperative, thanks in part to more than $9 million in federal stimulus money.

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin has raised slightly more than $315,000 since winning re-election in 2008, the smallest amount at this point in an election cycle for Herseth Sandlin since she won office in 2004.

The coming election likely will see a number of female politicians looking to make moves in the political scene.

Hundreds of people have been getting special access to secure areas of Mount Rushmore which are off-limits to most Americans, according to a newly released memo on security threats to the national icon.

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin criticized the liberal wing of the Democratic Party on Thursday while at the same time taking a hit from Republicans over efforts to reform health insurance.

By Lori Montgomery House leaders have cut the cost of their health-care overhaul to around $871 billion over the next decade, Democratic sources said Tuesday night, and were working to line up votes for the package with the aim of bringing it before the full House early next month.

Tired of the health care debate yet? If so, too bad as it's likely to dominate Capitol Hill news throughout the end of the year.

Aberdeen, SD-Recently, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin met with Chairman of the Yankton Sioux Tribe Robert Cournoyer and Vice Chair Karen Archambeau.

Congress could help domestic violence victims by reauthorizing federal support programs and passing health care reform, Rep.

With 2010 as a major election year, political discussion is still about who's running for what.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 10/13/2009 8:31 AM We've talked about the problem of insurance companies treating domestic abuse as a pre-existing condition and nine states, including South Dakota, not prohibiting such a nefarious practice .

Millions of Americans who rely on Social Security probably won't get a cost-of-living increase in 2010 as they have in past years, and the Aid Association for Retired People is pushing for a $250 emergency relief payment to help cover the difference.

This is a very good sign. Yesterday, in a closed Democratic caucus meeting, The Speaker was critical of the Baucus health care bill yesterday, according to The Hill:a oeThe savings [in the Baucus bill] come off the backs of the middle class,a Pelosi told a closed-door caucus meeting.

A passenger died Wednesday when a sports utility vehicle left the road on a curve and overturned near Volin in southeast South Dakota.

When Brendan Johnson, a 34-year-old Sioux Falls lawyer, applied for the post of U.S. attorney for South Dakota last January, he made one thing clear to a local paper: His father, Sen.

WASHINGTON - New rules clamping down on credit cards could be implemented sooner than expected - and that could put South Dakota's already squeezed lending industry in a further bind.

WASHINGTON - Brendan Johnson, the son of U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson and the Obama administration's choice for U.S. attorney in South Dakota, will receive a lump sum payment of $100,000 from his law firm if confirmed by the Senate, according to documents filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The silent approach of a hybrid car could have catastrophic results for pedestrians who can't hear them, which is why blind people are working with the auto industry to research the idea of adding sounds to the otherwise quiet new cars.

BATH - Federal officials will decide within a week or two whether to approve a request for disaster declarations for counties in central and northeastern South Dakota hurt by spring flooding, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today.

Once again, businesses, unions and lawmakers have concluded that the gas tax should be raised to pay for improving the nation's deteriorating and increasingly crowded highways and transit systems.

As the Senate Finance Committee slogged through amendments to a high-stakes health care bill last week and basked in the media spotlight, House Democrats were quietly contemplating a troubling question.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is touring the country to get the public's input on rural issues.

The emergence of two more Republicans who say they'll challenge U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin in next year's election gives the GOP tools they haven't had in recent congressional races: Experience and money.

SIOUX FALLS - South Dakota Secretary of State Chris Nelson says he'll join two other Republicans in seeking the party's nomination for U.S. House of Representatives.

Posted by: Pat Powers - 10/02/2009 9:41 AM Starting yesterday - the SDGOP has had 2 candidates jump in the race against Congresswoman Stepahnie Hersth.

Yesterday morning, Congressman Hal Rogers sponsored a measure that would prohibit the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States.

SDRight Now,1057 Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: DAUGAARD-GOVERNOR Daugaard to announce for governor Monday SIOUX FALLS, S.D. South Dakota's lieutenant governor, Dennis Daugaard , plans his official candidacy announcement for the Republican nomination for next year's open governor's seat on Monday and Tuesday.

State Rep. R. Blake Curd, an orthopedic surgeon from Sioux Falls, says he has filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission for South Dakota's lone U.S. House seat.