WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Baldwin Pens Op-Ed Calling Out Republicans for Raising Health Care Costs for Wisconsin Families * WISCONSIN - This weekend, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) penned an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel calling out her Republican colleagues for refusing to act and taking away tax breaks that allow 270,000 Wisconsinites to afford their health care on the Affordable Care Act. Unless Re  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release: * * * NRC Renews Point Beach Operating Licenses The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed for a second time the operating licenses of Point Beach, Units 1 and 2, for an additional 20 years. Point Beach's two pressurized-water reactors are located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Their renewed facility operating licenses will now expire in October 2050 for Unit 1 and March 2053 for Unit 2. The NRC's r  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The Democratic Governors Association posted the following news: * * * Tom Tiffany-Backed Medicaid Cuts Halt Reproductive Care in Wisconsin * A new report from the Associated Press reveals that Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will stop providing abortions as a direct result "of Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill" that gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Tom Tiffany praised as "a major win for the American people." According to  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 29 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation posted the following news release: * * * Trump administration brands critics of Christian nationalism as security threats * The Freedom From Religion Foundation is denouncing a new presidential memorandum for dangerously equating dissent and nonbelief with terrorism. President Trump issued a broadly worded memorandum on Sept. 25 titled "Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence" t  more