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U.S. Senator, South Dakota · Republican

John Thune

439 statements indexed, set against 915 recorded votes.

915 recorded votes

  • Voted for66272.3%
  • Voted against25227.5%
  • Did not vote10.1%
99.9%
of the votes they could cast
439
statements indexed
17,923
words on the floor

Turned up for 99.9% of the votes they could have cast, above the middle of the Senate, which is 97.9%.

In plain English

Thune voted 100 times out of every 100 they could. That is more than the middle of the Senate, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Pete Ricketts more than anyone else. The two agreed 98 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with John Fetterman. They agreed 27 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 8 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 4, 2005
Terms served
4 terms in the Senate
Previously
3 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2023 to January 3, 2029
Born
January 7, 1961

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Government funding is the largest heading in Thune's indexed remarks, at 16, with appropriations and the Department of Homeland Security next at nine each. Border security, the One Big Beautiful Bill and the Housing for the 21st Century Act follow. The pattern is the floor schedule of a leader rather than a single subject.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

439 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against John Thune’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 439 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

The Senate takes 54 votes of this kind this Congress against the House's 391: its floor time goes to cloture motions and nominations, where a yes does not mean pass the thing. There is not enough here to set out.

Voting With Their Party

On the 842 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, John Thune voted on 841 and was with the Republican majority on 822 of them.

841 party line votes cast

  • With their party82297.7%
  • Against their party192.3%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks John Thune as speaking in 2309 items of business across 249 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 915 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Senate lists John Thune. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 915 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other South Dakota seat in this chamber is held by Mike Rounds.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.