John Thune of South Dakota called Wednesday for the acting commissioner of the IRS to step down.
Mr Thune won his two previous elections overwhelmingly, with three-quarters of the vote (admittedly against weak opponents).
Instead Mr Thune mounted an energetic campaign to defend Ellsworth that some Republicans thought bordered on disloyalty.
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John Thune (R-SD) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO), is the second EU-ETS prohibition measure passed by the House.
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Tom Daschle, the Democrats' leader in the Senate, narrowly lost his South Dakota seat to John Thune.
"The American people don't want these men walking the streets of America's neighbourhoods, " Republican Senator John Thune said.
In South Dakota, for example, Rep. John Thune, a Republican, who's locked in a tight race with Democratic Sen.
Thune, Bean, Cuellar, Geoff Davis (R-Ky.) and Mike Sodrel (R-Ind.) each lost in their Congressional bids two years ago.
Mr Thune wants to say his rival is generally weak on national-security issues.
Senators John Thune and Chuck Grassley were the chief advocates of the extension.
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"The American people don't want these men walking the streets of America's neighbourhoods, " Republican Senator John Thune said on Wednesday.
John Thune of South Dakota, vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference.
John Thune, R-South Dakota, announced he would vote against Sotomayor, who completed three days of testimony last week before the Judiciary Committee.
Despite this, he famously lost his seat last November to John Thune, a Republican 13 years younger and a good bit taller.
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Mr Johnson argues that a vote for Mr Thune would be a vote against South Dakotan leadership in Washington and thus put the pork at risk.
Six served in the House (Burr, Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Thune and Vitter), which is up from four in the Class of 2002.
John Thune of South Dakota, a member of the Senate Republican leadership, said the figures show that gun control groups have emphasized the wrong approach to controlling firearms violence.
Mike Lee of Utah, Jerry Moran of Kansas, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Tim Scott of South Carolina, John Thune of South Dakota and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
Had Ellsworth closed, as many people expected, the vanishing tribe of Plains Democrats would have claimed that Mr Thune was a walking example of the dangers of replacing a senior figure with a fresh face.
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The group of senators included McCain, Martinez, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Collins, Richard Burr of North Carolina, George Voinovich of Ohio, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, John Thune of South Dakota, Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Graham.
Thune said lawmakers should aim instead at preventing future mass killings by improving mental health programs and increasing the records that state governments send the federal background check system so the checks can do a better job of keeping guns from people who shouldn't have them.
Mr Thune replies that this race will not be decisive to control of the Senate anyway, because of close contests elsewhere, and that South Dakota would be better served by a balanced team: Mr Daschle plus someone like himself with proven influence in the White House.
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