Tammy Baldwin in the News

"Cranes are the most endangered family of birds in the world, with 11 of the world's 15 species at risk of extinction.  None is rarer than the North American Whooping Crane.  There's a greater emphasis right now on protecting our environment and recognizing the burden on the environment of some of the policy decisions that we've made over the past many years...

...The International Crane Foundation, in Baraboo, Wisconsin has bred and guided whooping cranes on their migrations from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin to their breeding grounds in Florida's Chassahowitzka Wildlife Refuge..." 

"The Wisconsin congressional delegation's vote in the House last week on the $121.6 billion emergency supplemental spending measure, more commonly called the Iraq war funding bill, mirrors voter opinion back in Wisconsin...Rep. Tammy Baldwin was undecided until the vote.  For Baldwin, it was a matter of voting to end the war or 'send a bill (to the Senate) that gives the president unchecked power to continue his misguided, mismanaged war without end...'" 

"Farm-state lawmakers gearing up to write a new farm bill are split over a proposal to ease restrictions on growers of subsidized commodity crops who also plant fruits and vegetables.  The law currently strips growers of such commodities as corn and soybeans of their direct government subsidies and imposes penalities if they decide to grow fruits and vegetables.

At least 16 House members, including three Agriculture Committee membes, have signed onto a bill (HR 1371) by Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., that would continue to block subsidies to growers who plant fruits and vegetables but would lift the penalties.  Baldwin's bill would split the difference between the Bush administration, which wants to end the planting restrictions outright, and speciality crop growers, who like the law as it is..."