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• "It's going to be an operational facility in the future" Rounds said. "And we will, as a state, reap the benefits of having beef processing in the state where farmers and ranchers have one more place to market their livestock."
• Howie said the he thinks the program's use in South Dakota is a valid campaign issue because taxpayers lost money on a project pushed by Rounds' administration.
• "I think it's a bad program because it lends itself to crony capitalism and corruption," Howie said. "It interferes with the free-market system."
• Pressler said he is squeamish about selling citizenship or green cards for any amount of money. He said he doesn't know details of the investigations, but the program seems to have operated under an "old boys' network."
• If elected, Pressler says he would support legislation eliminating the program.
• "I just don't like the flavor of it," he said.
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• MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) -- Democracy is celebrated every day at Mount Rushmore National Memorial -- not just the Fourth of July weekend.
• And South Dakota's Tourism secretary says it's unlikely the Shrine of Democracy will be off limits again if there's another government shutdown.
• Jim Hagen says the Interior Department likely learned a hard lesson during the shutdown last October and now realizes how important national parks are to local economies.
• He says state officials also learned how passionate South Dakotans are about the parks. He says Gov. Dennis Daugaard raised thousands of dollars within an hour of asking for private donations used to reopen Mount Rushmore.
• The Interior Department says nearly 4 million people visited national parks in South Dakota in 2012, spent more than $236 million and supported over 3,700 jobs.
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