John Thune
John Thune is a Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota currently serving as Senate Majority Leader in the 119th Congress. He has represented South Dakota in the Senate since 2005, having previously served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and the Finance Committee, and has held multiple Senate Republican leadership positions including Senate Republican Whip and chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. He is known for his work on technology policy issues, including introducing bipartisan legislation related to AI safety reporting requirements.
“Thune, who's the Senate majority leader, John Thune, actually introduced a bill that was somewhat bipartisan... that required the frontier labs to report safety incidents, apparently, to the Commerce Department.”
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