Honored to serve the people of Wisconsin's 2nd District. @EqualityCaucus Co-Chair🏳️🌈 @Labor_Caucus Co-Chair✊ @AppropsDems Member He/Him/His
Madison, WI
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We live in a country under Republicans and Trump where working people are barely getting paid enough to survive while the ones getting big raises are the CEOs who take more money than they know what to spend it on.
Inequality is warping our economy and society.
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Rep. Quigley and I led a letter signed by 41 members of Congress calling on Secretary Rubio to work with Israel to ensure the release of Palestinian healthcare workers. They are arbitrarily being detained without formal charges or due process.
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The ongoing detention of Palestinian medical workers does further harm to Gaza’s already devastated healthcare, further eroding access to care in the West Bank. The doctors and healthcare workers are being held in deplorable conditions which threatens their own health and safety.
Release these Palestinian medics now!
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The ongoing detention of Palestinian medical workers does further harm to Gaza’s already devastated healthcare, further eroding access to care in the West Bank.
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Members of Congress and presidents, who can influence the stock market with a single sentence, need to be banned from trading stocks because we have access to confidential information. Using our public service for personal financial gain is called corruption, plain and simple.
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I am glad to work with Rep. Langworthy on this important legislation
Dogs and cats are living, feeling animals, not laboratory equipment. I'm proud to sponsor the bipartisan Companion Animal Protection Against Cruel Testing (COMPACT) Act. This stops @HHSGov taxpayer dollars from funding biomedical research using live dogs and cats. Your tax dollars should never fund this caged cruelty. This is an important issue that unites Republicans and Democrats.
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Rep. Mark Pocan retweeted
The LGBTQI+ community is under attack around the world by anti-equality politicians, but not all world leaders are backing down.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights refused to mince his words and called out these attacks for being "designed to confuse and to distract.”
ALT Washington Blade: "UN Human Rights Chief sounds alarm over 'comprehensive onslaught' against LGBTQ rights." Read more at the link in our bio.
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Three months ago, in the House Appropriations Committee, I introduced an amendment to prohibit your taxpayer dollars from being spent on Trump's obnoxious golden ballroom.
Unfortunately, every Republican voted against it.
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Today @RepLangworthy and I introduced the COMPACT Act, which will modernize federally funded biomedical research and end inhumane testing practices on cats and dogs. This is a nonpartisan issue, and I'm glad to work with colleagues from both sides of the aisle to move this important bill forward.
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What happened at Ridglan Farms was a wake up call, not just for our community, but across the country. Thousands of beagles were confined in inhumane conditions and bred for research. But we also saw the power of people coming together demanding change.
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Instead of focusing on grocery and housing prices, the president now wants to rename Ford's Theatre, where President Lincoln was assassinated, after himself.
Quite a display of insecurity and jealousy!
ms.now/news/trump-fords-thea…
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FACT: Since 1989, the U.S. economy has added about 51 million jobs. Roughly 50 million of those new jobs were under Democratic presidents.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Today we learned that 760,000 people were cut off from Obamacare at the end of August by the Trump Administration. People were already facing skyrocketing healthcare costs and this will only exacerbate the problems Americans face getting the healthcare they need.
news.bgov.com/health-law-and…
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Untrained ICE agents did not belong in airports. And they do not belong in polling stations.
That would be election interference and cannot be permitted.
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Happy 33rd anniversary to AmeriCorps! Thank you to the millions of members who have dedicated their time to service and making a difference. I will continue to fight against Trump’s cuts to this program that has helped so many Americans.
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As a member of the Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus, I stand with patients and providers against political interference in healthcare, because it's healthcare patients who face consequences for their actions.
Let’s be clear: abortion is healthcare and your healthcare decisions belong to you. Not politicians.
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Ever wondered why Hispanic Heritage Month goes from Sept. 15 - Oct. 15? The National Museum of the American Latino explains it is because many Latin American countries celebrate their independence during this time and it honors "the resilience and determination of the Hispanic community."
latino.si.edu/learn/teaching…
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