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Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) went off on United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou during a hearing this week after she suggested she has no regrets about her role in the Biden administration’s record-breaking illegal immigration wave to the United States.

A post office in Necedah will soon be renamed after a local hero. A bill was officially signed into law renaming the town’s post office as the Sergeant Kenneth E. Murphy Post Office Building.

If you depend on the U.S. Postal Service, you’ll want to pay attention to potential changes in delivery times. It’s going to have the biggest impact on rural residents, explains Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany. He says the postal service’s new operational plan will save money — roughly $3 billion per year — but it comes at the expense of rural recipients.

Two northland congressmen have signed a bipartisan letter calling for action to address recent mail delays. Minnesota 8th District Congressman Pete Stauber and Wisconsin 7th District Rep. Tom Tiffany are among 19 federal lawmakers on the letter.

Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., demanded an immediate investigation Tuesday after city of Madison officials said 2,215 duplicate ballots had been sent out across 10 wards in error. Madison officials said the duplicate ballots have identical bar codes and so can't be counted twice.

The “No W.H.O. Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act,” introduced by Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) in 2023, is a response to efforts beginning in 2021, at the height of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, to create some form of international binding legal document, spearheaded by the W.H.O., regulating how nations handle international health emergencies, including pandemics.

The House voted 219-199 to pass the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act, with four Democrats joining 215 Republicans to get the bill through. The legislation deems World Health Organization conventions or agreements to be treaties, which need senate supermajorities to be ratified. The bill now heads to the Democratic-controlled senate where it is unlikely to pass. Representative Tom Tiffany (R., Wisc.) introduced the legislation to limit the World Health Organization’s influence after the body received strong criticism for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Two of Wisconsin’s Republican congressmen want answers from Dane County’s sheriff about how a wanted illegal immigrant was able to commit another crime in another part of the state. U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden sent a letter this week to Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett asking about Alejandro Jose Coronel Zarate.