Freshman Steil seeks to reach across the partisan divide
A crumpled-up piece of paper U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil once fished out of the trash bin sits proudly in a frame on the Janesville Republican’s desk in his House office. It might appear unseemly to an outsider that a federal lawmaker would choose to showcase garbage, but the crinkled green slip displaying the phrase “417-2” holds special significance to the first-term congressman. The hand-written markings represent the vote tally from the House floor on H.R. 3050, Steil’s bill that altered SEC regulations on mutual funds investing in small-cap stocks. “The 417 to two vote, which I really like, that tells