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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Wisconsin Newsletter for 2024-12-14 ( 6 items ) |
Baldwin Announces $1.5 Million to Expand Apprenticeships in Milwaukee (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release:
MILWAUKEE Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, announced that Employ Milwaukee will receive $1.5 million to help expand access to apprenticeships for young workers and support the Cream City YouthBuild (CCYB) program. The CCYB program provides occupational skills training, paid hands- more PR
Baldwin Celebrates AstraZeneca's Commitment to Extend $35 Cap to New Inhalers (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release:
Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, celebrated the announcement that AstraZeneca will cap the cost of more of their new inhalers at $35. This announcement comes after Baldwin launched an investigation into the extremely high prices pharmaceutical companies charge for inhalers that 25 million Americans with asthma and 16 mill more PR
Merkley, Baldwin, Booker, 40+ Senators: No New Anti-LGBTQ+, Anti-Abortion Provisions in Must-Pass Government Funding Bills (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release:
45 Senators: "Partisan, discriminatory, and harmful policy riders have no place in must-pass legislation such as appropriations bills"
Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, and New Jersey's U.S. Senator Cory Booker led a group of over 40 Senators to urge Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) to keep any new dangerou more PR
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Sets Dec. 17 Hearing on Continuing Bipartisan Path Forward for Antitrust Enforcement, Reform (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Continuing a Bipartisan Path Forward for Antitrust Enforcement and Reform" at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 17, 2024, at 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building:
Witnesses
* Roger Alford, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, IN
* Gwendolyn Cooley, Former Chair of the National Association of Attorneys General's Mul more PR
Senator Baldwin's Statement on Former Rep. Sean Duffy's Nomination for Secretary of Transportation (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release:
Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) released the following statement today after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Transportation, former U.S. Representative Sean Duffy:
"I look at all of the President's nominees through the lens of 'will you be good for Wisconsin.' For this nominee, I am thinking about the big infrastructure projects in the pipeline to make more PR
Van Orden, Landsman Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Increase Veterans Access to Non-Opioid Medications (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release:
Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) and Congressman Greg Landsman (D-OH) introduced legislation to increase veterans' access to non-opioid pain medications.
To ensure veterans have the same access, Congressman Van Orden and Congressman Landsman introduced the NOPAIN for Veterans Act(link is external), which reforms the way the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers and covers non-opioid more PR
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