Congress

Dear Friend, Like you, I was troubled by the chaos and lawlessness that we saw unfold this week in Kenosha. We watched devastated business owners and families start to pick up the pieces in the wake of riots and property damage perpetrated by extremists looking for an opportunity to loot and destroy.

Dear Friend, Congress is returning from its August break for a rare Saturday session tomorrow. But Speaker Pelosi is not bringing lawmakers back to the Capitol to help local school districts trying to get kids back into classrooms, or to provide common-sense liability protections from junk lawsuits that Main Street businesses need as they struggle to get back on their feet in the wake of costly, government-mandated closures. Instead, the House of Representatives will take up a misguided bailout of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) – an effort driven in large part by conspiracy theories that permeated into our social media feeds and fueled slanted news coverage earlier this week. Unfortunately, this barrage of misinformation has tainted serious discussions about reasonable postal reform.

Dear Friend, With the House of Representatives currently out of session and lawmakers back in their district for the August work period, I spent much of this week meeting with constituents, business leaders and educators in northern Wisconsin

Dear Friend, This week, most Members of Congress reconvened for legislative business – although once again many Democratic lawmakers stayed home, instead allowing other members to cast “proxy votes” on their behalf.

Dear Friend, Congress is slated to reconvene next week, with lawmakers returning to the Capitol on Monday to begin consideration of the annual Defense Authorization bill. We will also consider a controversial bill that would hinder the President’s ability to restrict foreign travel to the US from Communist China and elsewhere in his efforts to respond to public health and security threats. More on that in next week’s Telegram.

Dear Friend, I hope you had a great 4th of July holiday with your friends and family, and that you had a chance to take in some of the fireworks and celebrations from across our great country, including those at America’s iconic Mount Rushmore.