Tammy Baldwin

This is really devastating and very frightening for thousands of families across Wisconsin.

I've been trying to school myself on the production of propane because of the crisis that Wisconsin is facing.

This bill is important to my state not because we are the home to large or even any perhaps supply or stocks of critical minerals, but we are home to manufacturers that rely on these critical minerals in their products

TRIO truly leveled the playing field for him as a first-generation, low-income college student.

Gwen started college at Marquette as a single expectant mother on welfare, who could only complete her education with the help of TRIO.

I applaud the efforts of my colleagues Senator Flake and McCain in working in a bipartisan fashion with the White House to fill these vacancies.

I look forward to the Senate's swift action on the President's nominations.

I urge the Committee and the full Senate to consider and confirm his nomination without undue delay.

I am proud to have worked together with Senator Johnson to find common ground on this important issue for Wisconsin.

The filling of judicial vacancies has been a top priority for me since even before I was sworn in to the U.S. Senator a year ago.

Jim Peterson will make an outstanding Federal judge, and his nomination marks an important step forward in fulfilling a judgeship that has been vacant for nearly 6 years.

I applaud the President's nomination of James Peterson to serve.

I would love to hear all of our witnesses' thoughts on two specific questions that I've heard a lot of at home from stakeholders in my State.

In the State of Wisconsin, a lot of people like BadgerCare. But because of the decision of our Governor, ... 92,000 people ... are being kicked off.

I just have to say as commentary before the exchange marketplace opened, a letter went out from the State.

The ongoing technical problems are unacceptable, and they must be fixed as soon as possible.

Wisconsin is one of the only States in the Nation that's poised to kick off a large number of individuals from their current Medicaid coverage in 2014?

Given the quality health insurance options available on the marketplace, we need all of the doors to that marketplace to be wide open.

And we also as a full Committee have larger responsibilities for the integrity of the program that we are talking about in the Social Security Administration, that the right reforms and oversight need to be in place to prevent these sort…

I look at the responsibility of this Committee and think at the very specific level of the investigation before us our responsibility is to do whatever we can to make sure that people who would abuse this program for their own personal…

It's one of the key issues that we need to grapple with if we are going to transform to a high-quality and lower-cost healthcare system.

I appreciate your providing a number of hearings on the draft legislation that you and the Ranking Member have introduced.

A century ago, Wisconsin passed the Nation's first workers' compensation program. Interestingly, it was under Governor Robert M. LaFollette, Sr., who at one point was a U.S. Senator in the seat that I now have the distinct honor of holding.

How will students benefit from changes that we are discussing today?

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Collins, for holding this really important hearing.