Contact: press@baldwin.senate.gov 202-224-6225 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson announced today their agreement to recommend to the White House two Wisconsinites for consideration to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. The candidates, Diane Schlipper and Sopen Shah, were recommended to the Senators by the bipartisan Wisconsin Federal Nominating Commission that has been established to provide recommendations for nominations during the 117th Congress for United States Attorneys and federal judicial positions. The full text of the Wisconsin Senators’ letter of recommendation to the White House is below and here. An online version of this release is available here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson announced today their agreement to recommend to the White House two Wisconsinites for consideration to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. The candidates, Diane Schlipper and Sopen Shah, were recommended to the Senators by the bipartisan Wisconsin Federal Nominating Commission that has been established to provide recommendations for nominations during the 117th Congress for United States Attorneys and federal judicial positions. The full text of the Wisconsin Senators’ letter of recommendation to the White House is below and here. An online version of this release is available here. May 21,

Contact: Alexa Henning Vanessa Ambrosini WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin announced today their agreement to recommend to the White House two Wisconsinites for consideration to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. The candidates, Diane Schlipper and Sopen Shah, were recommended to the Senators by the bipartisan Wisconsin Federal Nominating Commission that has been established to provide recommendations for nominations during the 117th Congress for United States Attorneys and federal judicial positions. The full text of the Wisconsin Senators’ letter of recommendation to the White House can be found below and here.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 5/21/21 Contact: Jordan Dunn WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), alongside Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), reintroduced H.R. 3389, the Congressional and Executive Foreign Lobbying Ban. This bipartisan bill would ban retired members of Congress, senior executive branch officials, and general and flag officers of the Armed Forces from lobbying on behalf of foreign interests. Click HERE for bill text. “There is a growing problem in Washington: too many U.S. government officials are willing to shop their connections and expertise to foreign adversaries,” said Rep. Gallagher. “If you have the privilege of serving in the highest levels of the federal government, you should not

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Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today acted on seventeen bills, including: Senate Bill 51, now Wisconsin Act 32: Makes several modifications to requirements for a newspaper to qualify to receive compensation for publishing legal notices. Senate Bill 52, now Wisconsin Act 33: Requires that if a current officeholder files a notification of noncandidacy or fails to file a notification of candidacy by the required deadline, the clerk with whom the candidacy is required to be filed must publish it on the clerk’s office or government body’s website or post it in at least three locations in the jurisdiction. Senate

Contact: Alexa Henning Vanessa Ambrosini WASHINGTON – In radio interviews this week with WCLO’s Tim Bremel, WTMJ’s Jeff Wagner, WISN’s Dan O’ Donnell, and WISN’s Matt Kittle, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) commented on getting Americans back to work, the Biden administration’s radical policies, and the massive spending packages, all threatening to halt economic recovery. On Colonial pipeline cyber-attack:  “We are incredibly vulnerable and no administration has paid enough attention and taken it seriously enough. There are many aspects to this but first of all I think it’s interesting that one of President Biden’s cabinet’s secretaries admitted what is true –

Contact: Senator André Jacque (920) 819-8066 DE PERE… State Sen. André Jacque (R-De Pere) today called on the State Legislature to override Gov. Evers’ veto of paddlewheel raffle fundraisers by non-profit organizations, his second veto of the measure in just over a year. “Let’s be clear:  these organizations already have charitable gaming licenses,” Sen. Jacque said. “I do not understand why Gov. Evers has it in for these groups. Surely the Governor has better things to do than making charity fundraising a crime.” Sen. Jacque (R-De Pere), who co-authored of the measure (Senate Bill 170) with State Rep. Dave Murphy (R-

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Thursday joined by Sens. Paul (R-Ky.), Lankford (R-Okla.), Scott (R-Fla.), Cotton (R-Ark.), Marshall (R-Kan.), and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requesting information on gain of function research and NIH’s 2014 moratorium on funding for that research. The members sent 17 information requests asking  NIH to explain what prompted the establishment of a moratorium on gain of function research in 2014.  They also requested NIH to explain why the moratorium stated that, “[a]n exception from the research pause may be

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the City of Ashland is an applicant for funding through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program (SDWLP) to address deficiencies in its public drinking water system. The project includes the replacement of lead service lines throughout the City of Ashland. Activities related to this project are minor actions under Chapter NR 150, Wis. Admin. Code, for which no environmental analysis is required; however, following the SDWLP federal requirement 40 C.F.R. §35.3580, an environmental review must be conducted before funding this project. The SDWLP has determined that the project will not

Madison, WI –A new ranking from the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan healthcare think tank, lists UW Health/University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics among the best in the U.S. for avoiding  overuse of low-value tests and procedures. Released earlier this month, the Lown Institute Hospitals Index is the first ranking of its kind to apply overuse criteria to over 3,100 U.S. Hospitals nationwide. Overuse is defined as the delivery of tests and procedures that provide little or no clinical benefit, are unlikely to have an impact on clinician decisions, increase health care spending without improving health outcomes, or risk patient harm in excess of

Washington, DC—Today, Reps. Ron Kind (D-WI), Tom Reed (R-NY), Antonio Delgado (D-NY), Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Jim Costa (D-CA), and David Valadao (R-CA) sent a bipartisan letter to United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack calling on them to move forward with enforcement measures negotiated in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to support U.S. dairy farmers. A core component of USMCA was the agreement’s promise of new export opportunities for America’s dairy industry and the introduction of fairer trade rules to ensure American-made dairy exports can compete on an even playing field. However, it’s crucial that the Administration holds our neighboring trading