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Mike Rounds
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
This profile keeps a lifetime office and promise record. The trust score is designed to stay close to 50 until enough claims and evidence are reviewed.
Breakdown
- Delivered during the term promised: 12 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 1 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 7 x 0.4
- Never delivered: 3 x 0.0
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 23
- Confidence: 66%
- Current claim count: 24
- Current evidence count: 187
Office History
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Candidate for U.S. Senator
South Dakota · current
2026 federal Senate reelection campaign is ongoing as of 2026-07-01; FEC profile lists him as an incumbent candidate for South Dakota Senate. -
U.S. Senator
South Dakota · current
Only current federal elected office identified. Excludes prior state legislative and gubernatorial service as outside scope. -
U.S. Senator
South Dakota · current
Historical elected offices still need research. -
Candidate for U.S. Senator
South Dakota
2020 federal Senate reelection campaign; Rounds was reelected to a second Senate term. -
Candidate for U.S. Senator
South Dakota
2014 federal Senate campaign; Rounds won the open South Dakota U.S. Senate seat and began service in 2015.
- Advocate for South Dakota to lead in artificial intelligence and expand technical education for students.
- Ensure that an additional billion dollars in investment for the Sanford Underground Research Facility is secured.
- Introduce and support legislation to expand access to capital for small businesses by streamlining the loan application process and reducing bureaucratic hurdles.
- Introduce and support legislation to improve rural transit services, address operating costs, reduce bureaucratic barriers, facilitate procurement of new vehicles, and support Tribal transit providers.
- Work to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education.
- Reintroduce and support legislation to create the MedShield program, using artificial intelligence to improve national pandemic preparedness and response.
- Continue working with tribal leaders to uphold tribal sovereignty.
- Work with House colleagues to advance the Stop Stealing our Chips Act through Congress and to the President's desk.
- Continue working with Senate colleagues to fund the rest of the government before January 30 through the regular appropriations process.
- Introduce and support legislation to create a Medicare payment pathway for FDA-approved AI-enabled medical devices.
- Continue working through the backlog of executive nominations awaiting Senate confirmation.
- Work with Senate colleagues and the House to pass the Fiscal Year 2027 NDAA and have it signed into law.
- Support legislation to establish the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource as shared national infrastructure that gives AI researchers and students greater access to resources, data, and tools for safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence development.
- Introduce and support legislation to enhance USDA Farm Service Agency loan programs by raising guaranteed ownership and operating loan limits, increasing authorized guaranteed and direct loan funding, and providing spending assurance for the programs.
- Support legislation to modernize reciprocal deposit rules by replacing the current cap with tiered thresholds for non-brokered treatment and allowing well-capitalized CAMELS 3-rated banks to fully use non-brokered treatment for reciprocal deposits.
- Introduce and support legislation to increase transparency and accountability in the Financial Stability Oversight Council's SIFI designation process by requiring consideration of alternatives and consultation with regulators and affected companies before designation.
- Introduce and support legislation to improve the Native American Direct Loan program for Native American veterans by allowing refinancing of existing mortgages, creating a Native CDFI relending program, and expanding outreach, homebuyer education, and housing counseling.
- Support the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions, strengthen the financial system, and expand access to credit and economic opportunities, especially in rural areas.
- Support legislation to protect veterans' credit ratings when delayed VA Choice Program payments cause payment delays.
- Support legislation to protect seniors by removing liability for financial institutions and professionals who report suspected senior financial fraud to authorities.
- Support legislation requiring the Treasury Department to study and report on cyber threats to financial institutions and capital markets.
- Work with colleagues to enact bipartisan legislation updating USDA Rural Housing Service programs to reduce red tape and create and preserve affordable housing opportunities in South Dakota.
- Introduce and support legislation to expand small business investor access to capital by raising the private fund adviser exemption threshold from $150 million to $175 million and requiring periodic inflation adjustments.
- Place a hold on all USPS nominees until South Dakota's postal service issues are resolved.
Method note
Long term, this app should score against a manually reviewed promise ledger that spans every elected office the candidate has held. The current model uses a Bayesian-style shrinkage step: thin records are pulled back toward 50 so the UI does not overstate certainty.
Claim occurrences, evidence, and future AI adjudications are all designed to store provider and model provenance. Formula version: 0.1.0.