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Campaign-trail tax proposals face difficult road to passage - Roll Call

​The hefty national debt and trillions of dollars in tax breaks due to expire next year are likely to complicate passage of pricey new plans.

Roll Call · Oct 30, 2024

Van Orden And Cooke Vie For Wisconsin’s 3rd District Seat In Tight Congressional Race‌

Republican incumbent faces off against Democratic challenger in battleground district; finance and voter tendencies analyzed.‌ ‌

Zenger · Sep 13, 2024

House GOP ‘tax teams’ in the spotlight as major expirations near - Roll Call

The House Ways and Means Committee’s new “tax teams” are front and center, but the GOP-only groups have prompted confusion and complaints.

Roll Call · Jun 3, 2024

Empty Minnesota seat, potential milestone for Vermont women highlight Tuesday elections - Roll Call

Tuesday's elections will fill a Minnesota House seat open since February while Vermont might move toward sending its first woman to Congress.

Roll Call · Aug 8, 2022

What to watch in Wis., 3 other states in Tuesday's primaries

The Republican matchup in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race in Tuesday's primary elections features competing candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence

The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2022

Wisconsin sees the fewest U.S. House candidates since 2012

The filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Wisconsin this year was June 1, 2022. Twenty-two candidates are running for Wisconsin’s eight U.S. House districts, including nine Democrats and 13 Republicans. That’s 2.75 candidates per district, less than the 2.88 candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.13 in…

Ballotpedia · Jul 27, 2022

Wisconsin Republican congressional candidate paid fine for bringing loaded gun to airport, report says

The Republican Derrick Van Orden’s campaign said the August incident was ‘purely accidental’

The Independent UK · May 9, 2022

Q&A: What plays in Peoria? Rep. Cheri Bustos would know

WASHINGTON — Cheri Bustos is a former journalist, a fact made evident the second you meet her and start getting peppered with questions: Where are you from, how long have you been doing this, do you do a lot of these interviews, do you like doing them?

Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2022

What plays in Peoria? Rep. Cheri Bustos would know - Roll Call

“I look at diversity in a much broader way … it’s not just racial or gender, but it’s geographical,” Illinois Democrat says.

Roll Call · Mar 29, 2022