6/10/21 Contact: Jordan Dunn WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), co-Chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, today introduced Jen Easterly, the nominee to serve as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Rep. Gallagher’s full remarks can be found below,

6/10/21 Contact: Jordan Dunn WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today released the following statement after the Committee passed H.R. 3684 on a party line vote. “Republicans and Democrats agree that we need to come together to modernize America’s infrastructure. But

Contact: Emily Kumlien June 10, 2021 (608) 516-9154 ekumlien@uwhealth.org   UW Health teams up with former governors to get Wisconsin vaccinated             MADISON, Wis. – They are on opposite sides of the political aisle, but Wisconsinites will soon see two former governors team up for

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Madison – Voters could soon have another convenient and secure option for voting. On Wednesday, the Wisconsin State Senate approved a bill authored by State Senator Alberta Darling that would make voting drop boxes legal. Senator Darling says voters need to know their ballot is secure and safe when voting absentee.

NAMI Wisconsin is concerned about the following bills because they will make it harder for some people who live with a mental illness to vote:  SB 204, SB 205, SB 206, SB 209.  We are especially concerned about the impact on those who vote as “indefinitely confined” voters, as well

MADISON, Wis. – Celebrate summer and Wisconsin’s pollinators in the upcoming issue of Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine available now. The Summer issue explores how the sound of a single bee, identified by a field ecologist, led to an exciting discovery late last summer in Milwaukee County: a nest of the rare rusty patched

WISCONSIN — A new report from AARP shows that even as the COVID-19 pandemic drove Americans out of work, and cost millions of people their health coverage, prescription drug prices increased at twice the inflation rate of the U.S. economy in 2020. In response to reporting from USA Today, Protect

Madison, Wis. — Today, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler released a video condemning Senator Ron Johnson’s vote against — and repeated efforts to kill — the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, which passed the Senate yesterday with broad bipartisan support. Click here to see the Chair Wikler’s remarks.

MADISON, Wis. — Despite an influx of revenue to the state, Republican legislators in Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee took an axe to Wisconsinites’ transportation options. They halved the mass transit aid to Madison and Milwaukee, making public transit more difficult in Wisconsin’s largest cities. Suburban and rural voters were not spared,

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the City of Ripon 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 Ripon.