Mike Rounds
What this job does: One of South Dakota's two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and approve or reject the president's picks for federal judges, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet. A term is six years.
- Current office
- U.S. Senator (since Jan. 3, 2015)
- Occupation
- U.S. Senator; former insurance and real estate business partner
- Lives in
- Pierre
Background
- Studied political science at South Dakota State University (B.S.) and has lived in Pierre since age three. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Partner in Fischer Rounds & Associates, an insurance and real estate firm. source: en.wikipedia.org
- South Dakota Senate, District 24, 1991-2001 (Majority Leader in 1995). source: en.wikipedia.org
- Governor of South Dakota, 2003-2011. U.S. Senator since 2015. source: en.wikipedia.org
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- Listed by South Dakota News Watch as focusing on national security, economic development and energy infrastructure (campaign did not take part in the News Watch/SDPB interview, so these are the outlet's summary, not the candidate's answers). source: sdnewswatch.org
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