--- type: Person title: "John Thune" description: "U.S. Senate - SD — State of South Dakota" role: "U.S. Senate - SD" party: "R" level: "federal" branch: "legislative" state: "SD" leadership: - role: "Senate Majority Leader" body: "S" since: "2025-01-03" committees: - name: "Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry" - name: "Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/commodities-derivatives-risk-management-and-trade" - name: "Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/conservation-forestry-natural-resources-and-biotechnology" - name: "Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/livestock-dairy-poultry-and-food-safety" - name: "Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation" - name: "Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Aviation, Space, and Innovation" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/aviation-space-and-innovation" - name: "Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/consumer-protection-technology-and-data-privacy" - name: "Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/surface-transportation-freight-pipelines-and-safety" - name: "Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Telecommunications and Media" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/telecommunications-and-media" - name: "Senate Committee on Finance" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/finance" - name: "Senate Committee on Finance - Health Care" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/health-care" - name: "Senate Committee on Finance - International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/international-trade-customs-and-global-competitiveness" - name: "Senate Committee on Finance - Taxation and IRS Oversight" role: "member" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/taxation-and-irs-oversight" - name: "Senate Select Committee on Intelligence" role: "ex-officio" body: "us/bodies/senate/committees/senate-select-committee-on-intelligence" tenure: start: "2025-01-03" current: true election: next: 2028 term_length: 6 term_limit: "none" ids: person: "912e9bd4-369f-43cf-9353-70abc9028f08" office: "b626a9f5-038a-402a-a529-7cd53fe10aee" tenure: "fe893110-c99c-4ab0-95bf-86cd157adf10" jurisdiction: "8b3f1a80-6bcd-4b6e-9450-e34298d45c87" bioguide: "T000250" sources: - field: tenure source: "Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20" - field: jurisdiction source: "Derived from governor jurisdiction" - field: roles source: "congress-legislators (unitedstates project)" confidence: official tags: [officeholder, federal, legislative, sd] timestamp: "2026-07-04" --- # John Thune Current U.S. Senate - SD (State of South Dakota). ## Leadership - Senate Majority Leader (since 2025-01-03) ## Committees - [Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry](/us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry.md) - [Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade](/us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/commodities-derivatives-risk-management-and-trade.md) - [Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology](/us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/conservation-forestry-natural-resources-and-biotechnology.md) - [Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety](/us/bodies/senate/committees/agriculture-nutrition-and-forestry/subcommittees/livestock-dairy-poultry-and-food-safety.md) - [Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation](/us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation.md) - [Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Aviation, Space, and Innovation](/us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/aviation-space-and-innovation.md) - [Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy](/us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/consumer-protection-technology-and-data-privacy.md) - [Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety](/us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/surface-transportation-freight-pipelines-and-safety.md) - [Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Telecommunications and Media](/us/bodies/senate/committees/commerce-science-and-transportation/subcommittees/telecommunications-and-media.md) - [Senate Committee on Finance](/us/bodies/senate/committees/finance.md) - [Senate Committee on Finance - Health Care](/us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/health-care.md) - [Senate Committee on Finance - International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness](/us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/international-trade-customs-and-global-competitiveness.md) - [Senate Committee on Finance - Taxation and IRS Oversight](/us/bodies/senate/committees/finance/subcommittees/taxation-and-irs-oversight.md) - [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence](/us/bodies/senate/committees/senate-select-committee-on-intelligence.md) — **ex-officio** ## Sources - tenure: Senate.gov XML 2026-06-20 - jurisdiction: Derived from governor jurisdiction - roles: congress-legislators (unitedstates project) Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).