Mike Rounds
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Since the current Congress began on January 3, 2025, Rounds has a recorded vote on 38 laws that passed.
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The record in plain language
Of the 118 laws passed since January 3, 2025, 38 came to a recorded vote in the Senate while Rounds is a member. The rest passed the Senate by voice vote or without objection, which records no individual votes.
Rounds votes Yes on the Laken Riley Act on immigration detention; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax and spending law; the HALT Fentanyl Act; the GENIUS Act on stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar); the Rescissions Act of 2025, which cancelled about $9 billion in approved spending; the defense policy law for fiscal year 2026; the Secure America Act, a 2026 budget law; the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act; and the Russia and Iran sanctions law.
On funding the government, Rounds votes Yes on the March 2025 full-year funding law; the November 2025 law that ended the 43-day shutdown; the January 2026 funding law for science, energy, Interior and the EPA; the February 2026 funding law for a further group of agencies; and the September 2026 funding extension.
Congress cancelled 24 federal rules by recorded vote in the Senate in that time. Rounds votes to cancel 24 and against cancelling 0. The rules Rounds votes to cancel come from: Interior: Bureau of Land Management (7), Environmental Protection Agency (6), Energy (4), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2), District of Columbia government (1), Treasury: Comptroller of the Currency (1), Interior: National Park Service (1), Treasury: Internal Revenue Service (1) and Interior: Ocean Energy Management (1).
Rounds votes the same way as most Senate Republicans on all 38 of these Yes and No votes.
Votes on laws that passed
Authorizes and expands sanctions and tariffs on Russia and extends existing sanctions on Iran.
Keeps the federal government funded at about last year's levels through December 11, 2026.
A package of housing measures intended to increase the supply of homes.
Gives the Department of Homeland Security extra money for border and immigration enforcement, in seven amounts that add up to $69.545 billion.
Cancels a federal order that had closed about 225,000 acres of national forest in northeastern Minnesota, near the Boundary Waters, to new mining leases for 20 years.
Cancels a District of Columbia law that changed how D.C.'s income and business taxes follow federal tax rules.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for a further group of federal agencies.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for the Commerce and Justice Departments, science agencies, energy and water programs, the Interior Department and the EPA.
The annual defense policy law.
Cancels a land agency decision that limited oil and gas leasing on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Cancels a land agency plan for northeastern Wyoming that ended new federal coal leasing in the Buffalo area.
Cancels a land agency plan for central Alaska that set aside large areas for conservation and limited development.
Cancels a land agency plan for federal lands in North Dakota that limited where coal, oil and gas could be leased.
Cancels a land agency plan for eastern Montana that ended new federal coal leasing in the Miles City area.
Cancels a land agency plan that limited oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Ends the 43-day government shutdown of fall 2025.
Cancels about $9 billion that Congress had already approved: roughly $8 billion in foreign aid and about $1 billion for public broadcasting.
Creates the first federal rules for payment stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar).
Permanently places fentanyl-related substances in the most restricted drug category, which carries the strictest criminal penalties, and eases registration for researchers who study them.
Cancels an EPA rule that had stopped certain large sources of toxic air pollution from being moved into a less strictly regulated category.
Cancels a bank regulator's rule that changed how proposed bank mergers are reviewed, restoring the earlier, faster process.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California set stricter smog-pollution limits for heavy-duty truck engines.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California phase out sales of new gasoline-only cars by 2035.
Cancels the EPA approval that let California require truck makers to sell a rising share of zero-emission trucks.
Cancels an EPA rule that tightened limits on toxic air emissions from tire manufacturing plants.
Cancels a National Park Service rule that restricted where off-road vehicles could drive in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Cancels a rule that would have put the largest digital payment apps under the consumer bureau's regular supervision.
Cancels a consumer bureau rule that would have limited overdraft fees at the largest banks and credit unions.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for commercial refrigerators and freezers.
Cancels an Energy Department rule on how appliance makers certify, label and report the energy use of their products.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for walk-in coolers and freezers used by stores and restaurants.
Cancels an Energy Department efficiency standard for tankless gas water heaters.
Cancels an IRS rule that would have required decentralized finance platforms to report their customers' digital asset sales the way stockbrokers do.
Funds the federal government through September 30, 2025, mostly at the prior year's levels, with more for defense and less for non-defense programs.
Cancels a rule that required offshore oil and gas leaseholders to submit archaeological surveys of the seabed before drilling.
Cancels an EPA rule that set up how oil and gas facilities would be charged a fee for excess methane emissions.
Requires immigration authorities to detain non-citizens without legal status who are charged with, arrested for or convicted of theft-related crimes, assaulting a police officer, or crimes causing death or serious injury.
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Member-requested spending
Congress printed 26 spending items this member requested, $187,385,000 in all, in the lists read for 4 laws.
Laws read: Public Law 119-37, Public Law 119-74, Public Law 119-75, Public Law 119-86.
| Recipient | Law | Purpose | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota State University | Public Law 119-37 | South Dakota State University Cottonwood Field Station Renovation and ExpansionNational Institute of Food and Agriculture · Research Facilities Act Program | SD | $2,000,000 |
| South Dakota State University | Public Law 119-37 | South Dakota State University Transient Animal Research Support FacilityNational Institute of Food and Agriculture · Research Facilities Act Program | SD | $500,000 |
| Communicatio ns Center: Design | Public Law 119-37 | Communicatio ns Center: DesignAir Force | None printed | $3,500,000 |
| Munitions Storage Igloos: Design | Public Law 119-37 | Munitions Storage Igloos: DesignAir Force | None printed | $4,000,000 |
| Two Munitions Storage Igloos: Minor Construction | Public Law 119-37 | Two Munitions Storage Igloos: Minor ConstructionAir Force | None printed | $5,400,000 |
| Weapons Generation Facility Dormitory: Design | Public Law 119-37 | Weapons Generation Facility Dormitory: DesignAir Force | None printed | $4,800,000 |
| Aircraft Maintenance Hangar: Design | Public Law 119-37 | Aircraft Maintenance Hangar: DesignAir National Guard | None printed | $1,700,000 |
| Indian Health Faciliti | Public Law 119-74 | es SD Cheyenne River Sanitation Fa ConstructionIndian Heal · th Service | None printed | $6,587,000 |
| Indian Health Faciliti | Public Law 119-74 | es SD Oglala Sioux T Sanitation Fa ConstructionIndian Heal · th Service | None printed | $8,920,000 |
| South Dakota State University | Public Law 119-74 | An Operational System for Monitoring and Forecasting Air Quality from WildfiresDOC · NOAA ORF | None printed | $343,000 |
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| Recipient | Law | Purpose | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn County Sheriffs Office | Public Law 119-74 | Jail Tech UpgradesDOJ · COPS Tech | None printed | $3,920,000 |
| South Dakota Attorney General's Office | Public Law 119-74 | Child Exploitation Investigation Support ProjectDOJ · COPS Tech | None printed | $675,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains Inc. | Public Law 119-75 | to upgrade and expand early learning centersDOL · Employment and Training Administration | SD | $2,000,000 |
| Avera Health | Public Law 119-75 | for facilities and equipment to support the acquisition and installation of fixed PET/CT scanner and linear acceleratorsHHS · Health Resources and Services Administration | SD | $10,175,000 |
| Bennett County Hospital & Nursing Home | Public Law 119-75 | for facilities and equipment for new hospital construction that will support emergency services, primary care, swing bed services, behavioral health programs, and other ancillary servicesHHS · Health Resources and Services Administration | SD | $2,551,000 |
| Coteau des Prairies Hospital | Public Law 119-75 | for facilities and equipment for replacement and installation of boilers and pump systemsHHS · Health Resources and Services Administration | SD | $1,099,000 |
| Coteau des Prairies Hospital | Public Law 119-75 | for facilities and equipment for replacement and installation of chiller systemHHS · Health Resources and Services Administration | SD | $683,000 |
| South Dakota State University--College of Nursing | Public Law 119-75 | for the purchase of equipment and suppliesED · Higher Education | SD | $2,953,000 |
| South Dakota State University | Public Law 119-75 | for curriculum development, including the purchase of technologyED · Higher Education | SD | $750,000 |
| Sioux Falls Regional Airport Authority (FSD) | Public Law 119-75 | Concourse Expansion ProjectDepartment of Transportation · Grants-in-Aid for Airports | SD | $30,000,000 |
| Rapid City Regional Airport (RAP) | Public Law 119-75 | Airline Concourse ProjectDepartment of Transportation · Grants-in-Aid for Airports | SD | $20,000,000 |
| SD | Public Law 119-75 | Box Elder Regional Transportation Improvement ProjectDepartment of Transportation · Highway Infrastructure Programs | SD | $4,000,000 |
| SD | Public Law 119-75 | SD44 Bridge Replacement and ImprovementDepartment of Transportation · Highway Infrastructure Programs | SD | $25,000,000 |
| Magdalene Dakota | Public Law 119-75 | Women's Rehabilitation FacilityDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | SD | $829,000 |
| Douglas School District #51-1 | Public Law 119-75 | Douglas Elementary SchoolDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | SD | $42,000,000 |
| Crow Creek Housing Authority | Public Law 119-75 | Crow Creek Housing DevelopmentDepartment of Housing and Urban Development · Community Development Fund | SD | $3,000,000 |
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