WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: WATCH: Senator Baldwin's opening statement highlighting fentanyl and drug impact in Wisconsin Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chair of the Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change and Manufacturing, which oversees the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), held a subcommittee hearing on the Coast Guard's role in combatting the fentanyl crisis and stemming the flow of drugs into the United   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced a resolution in support of every woman's basic right to emergency health care, including abortion care, regardless of where they live. The introduction comes as new reporting from ProPublica makes plain that Republican abortion bans are preventing women from receiving lifesaving emergency health care and resulting in preventable deaths. "Under our stat  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Administration Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: Today, the Committee on House Administration and the Chief Administrative Officer announced a new House-wide Policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This AI policy creates a framework for AI use while managing for cyber security and other risks in the House. The new policy was designed to be foundational, meaning the policy will be built upo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Administration Committee, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: Today, Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (WI-01) sent letters to the Attorneys General from Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, and Missouri, updating them on the Committee's investigation into ActBlue, a major democratic fundraising platform. Along with the letter, the Attorneys General received the data and evidence th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) today announced a subcommittee hearing titled, "The Border Crisis: The Cost of Chaos" to examine the price Americans are paying for the Biden-Harris Administration's ope  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: The U.S. House of Representatives today passed Congressman Bryan Steil's (WI-01) Protecting Americans' Retirement Savings from Politics Act (H.R. 4767) as part of a larger investor reform package (H.R. 4790). This legislation will improve the shareholder proposal and proxy voting advice process to prioritize retirement savings over politics. Floor Speech Graphic 9.19.24 Rep. Steil rele  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: Today, on the one-year anniversary of U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) reviewing the video footage of an irate Representative Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) screaming at high school-aged Senate pages, Pocan sent a follow-up letter to the Chairman of the House Committee on Administration, Representative Bryan Steil (WI-01), calling on him to finally release the July 26-27, 2023 security fo  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, issued the following statement on Sept. 19, 2024: On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) signed a joint statement condemning the disgraceful Palestinian Mission's resolution, which targets the Jewish State of Israel and its rightful control over its historic homeland. The resolution was submitted to the United Nations and could be voted on as early as this week. The senators wrote, "This proposal introduced by the Palestinian delegat  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Administration Committee, issued the following news release: The Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization held a hearing titled, "Continuity of Congress: Preparing for the Future by Learning from the Past." Witnesses: * Rep. Brad Wenstrup (OH-02) * R. Eric Petersen, Specialist in American National Government, Congressional Research Service * Tom Wickham, former Parliamentarian of the U.S.   more