U.S. Sen. Baldwin: Joins Senate Dems in demanding opportunity to review any relevant President’s Daily Briefs and other key NSC materials related to reports on Russia’s operation to offer bounties for killing American troops

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), along with Combat Veteran and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), joined her colleagues in sending a letter to President Donald Trump demanding information related to the intelligence

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Priorities USA Action: Releases new TV ads

Washington, DC — As countries around the world see coronavirus cases plummet, quickly control new flare-ups, and safely reopen their economies, the United States stands out as one of the few countries that has failed to get the virus under control. In

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Rep. Shankland: Responds to reversal of rule on international students

MADISON- Today, the Trump administration rescinded a rule announced earlier this month by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) for international students using F-1 and M-1 visas. The rule, if left in place, would have required students to either leave the country or transfer

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WisDems: Labor leaders slam Trump for betraying working people

(WISCONSIN) — In 2016, Trump campaigned across Wisconsin pledging to be a champion for working people — that he’d improve wages, create jobs, and lower health care and prescription drug costs. But since taking office Trump has broken every one of those promises, with his policies putting the rich and well-connected

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U.S. Sen. Baldwin: Joins Senate Dems in demanding opportunity to review any relevant President’s Daily Briefs and other key NSC materials related to reports on Russia’s operation to offer bounties for killing American troops

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), along with Combat Veteran and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), joined her colleagues in sending a letter to President Donald Trump demanding information related to the intelligence that Russia has been covertly offering bounties to Taliban-linked militants

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U.S. Rep. Grothman: ‘This is genocide’: Oversight Republicans call for national security hearing on Chinese Government’s persecution of the Uighur people

(Washington, D.C.) – On Monday, House Oversight National Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wisc.) urged Subcommittee Chairman Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) to hold a hearing examining the atrocities being committed by the Communist Party of China against the country’s Uighur ethnic minority. “We must determine the extent of the CCP’s

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Sen. Bewley: Task force on broadband step in the right direction

MADISON – Senate Democratic Leader Janet Bewley (D-Mason) released the following statement on the Governor’s Executive Order creating a Task Force on Broadband: “The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the problems people face when they don’t have broadband access, something residents in Northern Wisconsin know all too well. Whether it’s for

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Priorities USA Action: Releases new TV ads

Washington, DC — As countries around the world see coronavirus cases plummet, quickly control new flare-ups, and safely reopen their economies, the United States stands out as one of the few countries that has failed to get the virus under control. In just the last week, Americans saw the highest number of

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U.S. Rep. Pocan: Announces $50 million for F-35 noise mitigation

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) today announced inclusion of $50 million in the House Appropriations Committee’s Defense spending bill to be used to fund a new program that will provide noise mitigation grants for communities impacted by military aviation noise. In Madison, these grants will be able to be utilized

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