I was pretty ecstatic when I saw your name was going forward and you got confirmed.
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.
I recently spoke with a federal judge in my district about some very much-needed repairs at the federal courthouse in Madison, Wisconsin.
I am worried that this program also will not be the great program for many other reasons besides nutrition that it is.
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 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.
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…
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.
We`re going to have really delivered for the American people in a very serious, substantial way.
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.
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.
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.





