MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today delivered the Democratic Radio Address highlighting initiatives in his 2023-25 biennial budget proposal to do the right thing for kids and support their mental health with a more than $270 million investment to continue the “Get Kids Ahead” initiative, providing additional mental health supports

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.), Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-Texas), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, and Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, released the following letter they sent to Department of Veterans Affairs

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) encourages hunters to share their turkey hunting experience with friends and family by bringing someone new along during this 40th spring turkey hunting season. Turkey hunting is a unique opportunity to experience the results of a truly successful conservation effort. Collaboration between states,

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced it is accepting applications for the Shooting Range Grant Program through July 15, 2023.  The grant program provides financial assistance for creating safe and accessible firearm and archery shooting opportunities for the public. Managers of public or private shooting ranges

MADISON, Wis. –The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Relatives (MMIW/R) Task Force unanimously passed a resolution among members attending the April 7, 2023 meeting supporting items in Governor Evers’ proposed budget that address the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous persons in Wisconsin. The resolution stated, “The Wisconsin Missing and

MADISON – As the demand for skilled nurses continues to grow, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) has launched a pilot Registered Nurse (RN) apprenticeship pathway to address the nursing demand in Wisconsin. The pilot, an innovative partnership with UW Health and Madison College, welcomes its first cohort this

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers this week has been visiting school classrooms, highlighting more than $50 million in budget initiatives aimed at improving learning outcomes for Wisconsin kids, including in reading and literacy, computer science, personal finance, and math education. As 2023-25 biennial budget deliberations are set to pick up in

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) issued the following statement in response to the House Financial Services Committee’s passage of his legislation, the Making the CFPB Accountable to Small Businesses Act, which requires the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to presume that size and sophistication-based tailoring of regulations are needed in SBREFA panel

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) released the following statement after voting for H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act. “Over the past two years, President Biden has maxed out America’s credit card, fueling record price hikes that are forcing Americans to pay more while earning less,” said Congressman Tiffany. “Today, we passed a sensible

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald released the following statement in response to the passage of the Limit, Save, Grow Act: “From the start, House Republicans have been clear that we cannot raise the debt ceiling without cutting wasteful spending and putting our country on a sustainable fiscal path, said Congressman

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) today released the following statement after voting for the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023. “President Biden recklessly spent trillions of dollars, helped turbocharge inflation, and maxed out the nation’s credit card. Continuing down this path would put the country in financial ruin, which is why

MADISON, Wis. — Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler released the following statement in response to all six Wisconsin Republicans in the U.S. House backing Kevin McCarthy’s MAGA debt ceiling bill: “Confronting the threat of a catastrophic and unprecedented debt default, Wisconsin Republicans have teamed up with Kevin McCarthy to

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined a letter with 17 Republican senators to the Biden Administration’s Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson. This letter expressed the Senators’ outrage at FHFA’s proposal to penalize Americans who have managed their money responsibly so the Biden administration can subsidize

MADISON, WI (April 26, 2023) – Today, Audubon advocates from across Wisconsin gathered at the State Capitol to meet with elected officials to encourage them to support protections for Wisconsin’s wetlands, conservation funding, and climate friendly policies to protect birds, other wildlife and people.  “Wisconsin’s birds and local communities are at-risk

Washington, DC — Yesterday, the White House released a new analysis showing that 21 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care under the latest Republican plan to impose so-called work requirements for millions of people on Medicaid. Research shows the vast majority of people with Medicaid coverage

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Bryan Steil (WI-01) released a statement after voting to pass H.R. 2811, the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023, legislation to responsibly increase the debt ceiling for one year and limit federal government spending to save taxpayer dollars and reduce the deficit by $4.8 trillion over

“Republicans continue to push our country toward economic disaster unless Democrats meet their extreme demands. Their Default on America Act shows their hand, proving again they are uninterested in lowering our deficit. Instead, their bill would only enact their MAGA agenda and roll back Democrats’ progress building a clean energy

[Madison, WI] – Yesterday, State Representative Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) joined his Assembly Republican colleagues in supporting a package of workforce legislation aimed at preventing fraud and abuse in the state’s welfare system, while also encouraging a return-to-work for Wisconsinites who are on the sidelines. “Unemployment insurance (UI) was never supposed to

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced the bipartisan Global Aircraft Maintenance Safety Improvement Act,legislation that seeks to return aircraft maintenance to the U.S. by removing incentives for airlines to offshore this work. The legislation would ensure that foreign aviation repair stations are subject to

Madison – Representative Chanz Green (R-Grand View) issued the following after voting in favor of helping people move on from government when it comes to the workforce in Wisconsin.  “The workforce issue in Northern Wisconsin is one of my top priorities,” said Rep. Green. “We want to help people that need