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Mark Pocan

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Mark William Pocan is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Pocan has focused on issues such as healthcare, poverty alleviation, and economic inequality throughout his tenure. He has been an outspoken critic of policies he views as detrimental to working families and has advocated for progressive reforms in various areas, including taxation and social services.

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May 11, 2022

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

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May 11, 2022

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

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May 10, 2022

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

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May 10, 2022

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

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May 10, 2022

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

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May 10, 2022

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.

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Mar 30, 2022

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

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Mar 30, 2022

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

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Mar 30, 2022

I completely agree with Representative Herrera Beutler on Pell.

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Mar 30, 2022

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

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Mar 30, 2022

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.

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Mar 28, 2022

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

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Feb 3, 2022

The attempted insurrection of our government on January 6 last year is a stain that will forever live on our country, but equally dirty were the other attempts to illegally overturn our November 2020 elections, including the shady Trump…

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Jan 21, 2022

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

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Jan 21, 2022

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.

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Jan 21, 2022

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

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Jan 21, 2022

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.

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Jan 21, 2022

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.

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Jan 21, 2022

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.

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Nov 18, 2021

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

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Nov 18, 2021

We`re going to have really delivered for the American people in a very serious, substantial way.

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Nov 18, 2021

This is a bill that will be paid for, won`t add to the deficit, and will save American families quite a bit of money.

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Oct 26, 2021

I have a bill that I introduced back in 2013 that came out of the grass roots of my constituents, on refinancing of student loans.

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Oct 1, 2021

What we`ve been asking for and the president asked for last week when I was at the White House, he was saying tell us what you`re for.

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