WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chair of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change and Manufacturing, which oversees the Coast Guard, introduced the Pay Our Coast Guard Act, bicameral, bipartisan legislation that would ensure Coast Guard personnel receive pay and allowances in the event of a government shutdown if the members of the Armed Forces receive pay and allowance  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) today announced that Wisconsin will receive a total of $13.5 million in Inflation Reduction Act funding she helped deliver to support two projects to combat climate change, expand access to green spaces, and create healthier communities in the City of Milwaukee and Dane County. The funding comes through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service's Urban and  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Senator Angus King (I-ME), Co-Chairs of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), today held an event on Capitol Hill discussing the success of CSC efforts and what the commission hopes to accomplish in the near future. Since its launch in April 2019, the commission has seen roughly 70 percent of its recommendations fully or partially implemented. Prior to t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2023: Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) and Congressman Mike Flood (NE-01) introduced the Insurance Data Protection Act to rein in the Treasury Department's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) by eliminating its subpoena authority and limiting how the office collects data from state insurance regulators. For about 150 years, state insurance regulators and respective laws have regulat  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), Congressman Kevin Hern (OK-01), and Congressman Zach Nunn (IA-03) introduced the Build Responsible Infrastructure Development for the Global Economy (BRIDGE) Act to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and bolster the United States' economic competition against China. The BRI is one of China's key strategies to exert undue influ  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) introduced the National Risk Management Act of 2023, a bipartisan bill that would strengthen the defense of critical infrastructure sectors by requiring the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and establish a National Risk Management Cycle. "Our adversaries continue to launch cyber attacks against us that cripple our infrastructure, s  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, issued the following statement on Sept. 19, 2023: * * * Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) released the following statement after he reviewed the security footage showing Representative Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) accosting and verbally harassing teenage Senate pages while they were enjoying the U.S. Capitol rotunda this past summer: "This video was bad and unbecoming of a Member of Congress. There is no way to prove Derrick was d  more