DEL RIO, TEXAS– U.S. Representatives Bryan Steil (WI-01), Tony Gonzales (TX-23),  and Stephanie Bice (OK-05) visited Del Rio, Texas on Monday. During the visit, they met with the Del Rio Sector Border Patrol, toured the International Bridge and held a roundtable with Border Patrol Union leadership, Texas Department of Public Service and National Guard to discuss the ongoing crisis at the southern border. “President Biden’s open border policies have created an illegal immigration crisis,” said Rep. Bryan Steil (WI-01). “I saw the problem first hand. Since President Biden took office, Border Patrol has encountered over 1.2 million illegal migrants at our southern

As Public Health Madison & Dane County (PHMDC) continues to issue seemingly endless decrees for mask mandates, it is long past time to ask them for “more” – more accountability and more leadership. Anyone who has travelled beyond the borders of Dane County has seen how most of the state and country has already moved beyond mandates. PHMDC needs to back off mandates and instead better provide us with complete, unbiased, and non-partisan information so that every individual in Dane County can make informed health decisions for themselves and their families. Ongoing mandates, whether they are local or from the

DEL RIO, TEXAS– U.S. Representatives Bryan Steil (WI-01), Tony Gonzales (TX-23),  and Stephanie Bice (OK-05) visited Del Rio, Texas on Monday. During the visit, they met with the Del Rio Sector Border Patrol, toured the International Bridge and held a roundtable with Border Patrol Union leadership, Texas Department of Public Service and National Guard to discuss the ongoing crisis at the southern border. “President Biden’s open border policies have created an illegal immigration crisis,” said Rep. Bryan Steil (WI-01). “I saw the problem first hand. Since President Biden took office, Border Patrol has encountered over 1.2 million illegal migrants at our southern

Coalition Sends Joint Letter to U.S. Senate Committee Sharing Concerns about Social Media Platforms Exploiting Young People for Profit October 5, 2021 Contact: DOJCommunications@doj.state.wi.us MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul joined a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys general expressing strong support for the hearings being conducted by the U.S. Senate Committee addressing protection and safety of kids and teens using social media. Attorneys general have been watchful and concerned over the impacts of social media on youth. Those concerns have grown with the recent research from Facebook’s own internal studies showing that social media is inflicting harm—in the form of

MADISON, Wis. — Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel highlighted Rebecca Kleefisch’s refusal to come up with a serious plan for responding to one of the biggest challenges facing Wisconsin in state history. Kleefisch has continually spread misinformation about Gov. Tony Evers’ pandemic response and embraced dangerous anti-mask and anti-vaccine rhetoric that puts Wisconsinites at risk and jeopardizes our economic recovery. While Kleefisch and state Republicans refuse to take COVID-19 seriously, Gov. Evers is working on getting more Wisconsinites vaccinated and supporting our small businesses as they bounce back from the pandemic. Between August 20 and September 19, over 142,000 Wisconsinites got their first dose of

MADISON, Wis. — Despite adding nearly $8 trillion in debt under the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress have repeatedly voted against Democrats’ attempts to fund our government and to raise the debt ceiling as the country continues to recover from the pandemic made worse by Republican incompetence. Their decision to play partisan political games could send our recovering economy into a tailspin and have devastating implications for Wisconsin residents — and is an affront to the more than 1,000 military personnel and over 363,000 veterans who call Wisconsin home.   As House Republicans — including Wisconsin’s own Reps. Grothman, Gallagher,

MILWAUKEE — Dr. Jacob J. Capin, assistant professor of physical therapy in Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health High-Risk, High-Reward Research program for a five-year research program to evaluate the impact of prior injury and sedentary behavior as two potential determinants of later poor health and reduced function in amateur athletes. The High-Risk, High-Reward Research program supports highly innovative research proposals that, due to their inherent risk, may struggle in the traditional peer-review process despite their transformative potential. Capin’s project is an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award,

MILWAUKEE — Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, will be the featured guest for an upcoming virtual “On the Issues with Mike Gousha,” Thursday, Oct. 7. The discussion will be streamed live beginning at 12:15 p.m. Registration to watch the event live is available online. An archive of the event will be available on the Marquette Law School YouTube channel. WILL is a policy think tank and litigation center based in Milwaukee. Under Esenberg’s leadership, the center has become increasingly influential in Wisconsin, weighing in on a wide range of issues, from education and regulatory

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced it would conduct targeted invasive carp sampling in the Milwaukee River with assistance from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) during the week of Oct. 4, 2021, after detecting invasive carp environmental DNA (eDNA). In June 2021, routine eDNA sampling by the USFWS detected bighead carp eDNA at one of the 100 sample locations in the Milwaukee River. In response to this detection, an additional 150 eDNA samples were collected and analyzed in September 2021. One of these samples returned positive for invasive carp DNA, indicating the presence of either

Dr. Michelle Robinson to serve as the first director of the newly formed office Today, Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced the hiring of Dr. Michelle Robinson as the Director of the newly formed Office of Health Equity. The Office of Health Equity and its dedicated team is attached to the Office of the Secretary and will lead work to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion within the department while also coordinating the development and implementation of policies and programs to address root causes of health inequities. “Our priority is and always has been to build

MILWAUKEE — Gov. Tony Evers today announced two new competitive grant programs totaling $75 million to support diverse business investment in communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The pandemic has underscored—and, in some cases, even exacerbated—disparities experienced by underserved communities, in particular for people of color in Wisconsin. Gov. Evers earlier this year announced $50 million in grants to community partners working to eliminate disparities and promote equity and inclusion, bringing the governor’s total investment into promoting diversity in the state’s economic recovery from COVID-19 to $125 million. The governor made the announcement today in Milwaukee’s Dominican Center alongside business leaders representing