Tammy Baldwin

Women's health and reproductive rights are under attack in this country.

We must do everything we can to target investment to increase access to care, and support the maternal healthcare workforce.

I worked to pass legislation requiring HRSA to identify areas with critical shortages of maternity healthcare professionals.

The Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act will address the workforce crisis in long-term care.

Our trade policy is being abused. It is being abused by companies from China that make products with forced labor, or sell counterfeit goods...

Between 2019 and 2021, opioid overdose deaths in Wisconsin grew by a staggering 97 percent. In no small part due to synthetic fentanyl.

The work that our Customs, and Border Protection, and Homeland Security do at our southern border is essential to keeping families across the country, and in Wisconsin safe.

I was also proud to vote to advance the Bipartisan Border Security Bill that would have, among other things, invested in high-tech border security, disrupted the deadly flow of fentanyl into our country...

Our trade policy is being abused. It is being abused by companies from China that make products with forced labor, or sell counterfeit goods...

The work that our Customs, and Border Protection, and Homeland Security do at our southern border is essential to keeping families across the country, and in Wisconsin safe.

Between 2019 and 2021, opioid overdose deaths in Wisconsin grew by a staggering 97 percent. In no small part due to synthetic fentanyl.

In February, the Senate passed the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, a bipartisan bill that I co-sponsored to help protect our communities from the damaging effects of fentanyl and illicit substances crossing our borders.

I am proud that many of these vehicles are made wholly, or in part, in the State of Wisconsin.

I was surprised to hear that the Navy estimates that the Frigate will be delayed by as many as 36 months.

Wisconsin's Industrial Base is something, of course, that is always on my mind.

I am worried that the Army's management of these programs and their associated industrial base.

I share the Air National Guard's concerns about the slow pace of fuel tanker recapitalization.

I am proud that many of these vehicles are made wholly, or in part, in the State of Wisconsin.

Ahead of this year's budget I sent you a letter asking that the fiscal year 2025 budget reflect more realistic procurement numbers, and again this year, the budget request is insufficient.

For many years, I have pressed the Army to adequately fund these platforms, and we are here today looking at another inadequate budget request.

For the last 2 years, I secured increases to the Navy's budget specifically to expand the Frigate workforce and industrial base.

In my view, it's not merely that the Navy failed to perform sufficient oversight as you mentioned in your response but that the Navy has directly contributed to the delay by requesting substantial design changes as well as a slowly…

I am disappointed that it took the Navy 15 months to obligate the fiscal year 2023 funds.

I was surprised to hear that the Navy estimates that the Frigate will be delayed by as many as 36 months.

Wisconsin's Industrial Base is something, of course, that is always on my mind.