Tammy Baldwin News

When it comes to communicating with constituents at taxpayers' expense, Rep. Steve Kagen is the most prolific member of the Wisconsin congressional delegation.

Ninety-six members of Congress requested all information on this year's "don't ask, don't tell" discharges to prepare for the upcoming debate on the ban on gays in the military.

Wisconsin representative Tammy Baldwin has come down with a case of swine flu. Baldwin is staying in her D.C. apartment to recover and avoid exposing others.

A proposed federal jobs bill could help Wisconsin get rid of a big shortfall in its Medicaid health programs for the poor and elderly.

Senate Democrats intent on passing a health care reform measure before they adjourn for the year are being thwarted by one of their own over a hot-button issue that could derail the whole bill: Abortion.

Congress is preparing to vote on a bill that would extend benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees after passage in committees from both houses.

According to HRC Backstory , the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, S.1102 , by a vote of 10-6 to the Senate floor, with five Republicans and Democrat David Pryor of Arkansas voting against the bill and Chairman Joe Lieberman and Ranking Member ...

On Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee favorably reported the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act out of committee on an 8-1 vote.

Wisconsin colleges and universities are set to receive millions of dollars in federal funding as part of a $1.1 trillion catchall spending bill that gained final approval in the Senate on Sunday.

Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit speaks to LGBT elected and appointed officials at the recent International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference.

Representatives Tammy Baldwin and Jared Polis talked at last weekend's International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference about LGBT bills that are making their way through Congress.

WASHINGTON - How area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Dec.

When members of Congress play the market, they typically fare better than average Americans.

Dec. 11, 2009 11:49 a.m. Milwaukee Public Schools had two schools and the Racine Unified School District had one school that made U.S. News and World Report's latest Best High Schools list .

Dane County sheriff's deputies had to shoot a runaway steer in the village of Black Earth on Thursday.

Brookfield police seek driver who struck officer Dec. 11, 2009 1:34 p.m. Brookfield - A Brookfield police officer who was on foot on W. North Ave.

Ten members of Congress have written the Food and Drug Administration to reexamine its ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.

Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:19 a.m. Vote 0 Votes A group of around 50 protesters marched silently down State Street Wednesday in a symbolic memorial of the casualties from the war in Afghanistan, demonstrating their opposition to President Obama's call Tuesday for the deployment of 30,000 more U.S.troops to Afghanistan.

The U.S. House is ready to approve two pro-gay bills, openly lesbian Wisconsin Representative Tammy Baldwin said Saturday at the 2009 International Gay & Lesbian Leadership Conference sponsored by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.

I have been taking pictures at GLBT events since the early 80a TMs. One of the events I covered in 1986 was the second Gay Lesbian Leadership Conference in Washington, DC where I was living at the time.