Sen. John Thune  R-SD  The Future of the Republican Party

                                                           
John Randolph Thune is the Republican junior U.S. Senator from the state of South Dakota. He was born January 7, 1961 in Murdo, South Dakota. He assumed office January 3, 2005. He is married to Kimberly Thune and they have two daughters, Brittany & Larissa. Thune attended college at Biola University in California before returning to his home state to obtain a graduate degree at the University of South Dakota.

Prior to his becoming a U.S. Senator he worked as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator James Abdnor and served in the Reagan Administration in the Small Business Administration, before winning election to the House of Representatives in 1996. After three terms in the House, he unsuccessfully challenged Democrat Tim Johnson in the U.S. Senate race in 2002, losing by a mere 524 votes (0.15%). Thune was elected to the Senate two years later, defeating the incumbent Democrat and serving Senate Minority Leader, Tom Daschle, in a historic race that received national media attention.

Thune serves on the following Committees:

Agriculture
Nutrition & Forestry Committee
The Armed Services Committee
The Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
The Small Business Committee.

In 2006, the American Conservative Union gave Senator Thune a rating of "100"

Thune has described his religious faith as the most important aspect of his political career: "Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions."

Here is how Sen. Thune stands on some of the issues:

He is Pro-Life
He is against same sex marriage.
He is rated 100% by the NCJA, indicating a "tough-on-crime" stance.
He supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer.
He has a Pro-Gun voting record
He is rated 100% by USBC, indicating a sealed-border stance
He supports the completion of the US mission in Iraq.

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