(Madison)…Senator Kathy Bernier (R-Chippewa Falls) was entrusted by her colleagues to chair the Senate Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics. She spent her career as a county elections official and in the legislature she championed election integrity laws like Voter ID and a statewide voter registration database. The committee has held multiple hearings on election bills, and will continue to do so. Some have already been voted out of the committee and acted upon by the full Senate. Election law is complicated and getting it right takes time. Any perceived delays are due to crafting good policy. If

[Madison, WI] – Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Milwaukee – the latest stop in her national tour designed to convey how little she cares about the crisis at our southern border. Wisconsin Republicans and the media took notice, as officials at all levels criticized Harris’ use of Wisconsin to continue to dodge her responsibilities as Biden’s border manager and tout her $6 trillion tax and spending plan. Critics who blasted Harris’ visit included Republican members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Reps. Jim Steineke and Tyler August, who recently visited the southern border and experienced the Biden administration’s disastrous handling of

(MADISON) — Vice President Kamala Harris visited Milwaukee yesterday to highlight the American Jobs Plan, a proposal she says would bring “good-paying, union jobs” to Wisconsin. The American Jobs Plan will reimagine and rebuild America’s economy, from repairing roads and bridges to ensuring access to rural broadband and creating clean energy jobs. Read what they’re saying about the Vice President’s visit: Associated Press: Harris touts research during first Wisconsin trip Harris also participated in a roundtable discussion about the investments in research and development proposed in Biden’s infrastructure jobs plan, which would rebuild roads and bridges, boost broadband access and make

MADISON – This Thursday, May 6, 2021, Voces de La Frontera Action will host an emergency statewide rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The decision to mobilize came after the announcement that  anti-immigrant Republicans in the Joint Finance Committee  are planning to remove the provision in the ‘Governor’s  budget proposal that restores access to state driver licenses and state IDs, as well tuition equity for Wisconsin immigrant youth from the state budget. Despite the short notice, Voces is expecting hundreds of statewide members, community leaders, religious leaders and elected officials to be in attendance in Madison on Thursday, May 6, and make their

Today, Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05) again call on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to take action to address the troubling decline in blood lead screening for at risk kids, including providing more resources and assistance to state and local governments.   “Since coming to Congress, I have been working to help protect our children from the harm posed by lead poisoning.  One of the adverse impacts of this pandemic has been a decline in routine visits to doctors, including for blood lead screening.” Through September 2020, the amount of lead tests performed decreased by

MADISON, WI – Tomorrow, the legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance is scheduled to remove dozens of non-fiscal and otherwise harmful policies from Gov. Evers’s budget, doing the right thing for our state and sending a message to Gov. Evers that Wisconsin needs to be more responsible with taxpayer money. Gov. Evers more than doubled the number of non-fiscal policy items in this year’s budget, and the Budget Committee is taking a stand for taxpayers. Americans for Prosperity – Wisconsin (AFP-WI) State Director Eric Bott released the following statement leading up to the Budget Committee’s anticipated action: “The legislature is doing the