Mark Pocan

I think there are many things that are very important.

I think it is time for a more modern definition of defense.

I would argue things like cybersecurity, climate change, pandemics clearly are all things that fall under national security.

While you have a lot of great investments for working families, the defense budget still is ballooning.

I agree with Mr. Womack. I used to be on Reid Ribble's bill as well to do the biennial budget process.

I was pretty ecstatic when I saw your name was going forward and you got confirmed.

I recently spoke with a federal judge in my district about some very much-needed repairs at the federal courthouse in Madison, Wisconsin.

I found it very exciting the new wave of organizing that we are seeing.

I am worried that this program also will not be the great program for many other reasons besides nutrition that it is.

I just hope we consider this.

We are getting ripped off right and left, in my opinion, by pharmaceutical companies in so many cases.

Because we can't continue an economy where people are quitting at the rate they are quitting every month because they just really want to earn more money.

Cracking down on these schools that do--are predators is really critically important.

I love the idea of a hearing with regard to teacher shortage, and we are going to take you up on that.

I completely agree with Representative Herrera Beutler on Pell.

I have great concern on the teacher shortage issue as well.

I think my biggest question, you have talked a lot about the effect on students, and one of the problems that I am hearing, you know it is a national problem in our districts, is teacher retention.

I truly believe this is one where price gouging is at the center of why we have some of these increases around me.

We have to give people confidence, full confidence in their vote.

This is what we’ve seen out of the Trump campaign and the Trump administration that clearly had a scheme to try to steal the election.

If you challenge him, if you don’t do everything he says, he’ll challenge you in Republican primaries.

The Republican Party is not a political party anymore, right? It’s a cult of an individual, Donald Trump. And Donald Trump acts like a mafia don.

People were trying to pretend they were someone they weren’t. They were trying to circumvent the process and set it up so that Mike Pence could say, I can’t count these states, therefore, Donald Trump is president.

I urge Attorney General Garland to investigate these individuals in Wisconsin and any of the individuals in six other states who tried to connive their way into overthrowing an election by impersonating a member of the Electoral College.

This bill goes after that. Has a minimum tax that they have to pay and it`s finally bringing that tax fairness.