Congress

Eau Claire Democrat Rebecca Cooke has outraised Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden for the first time in Wisconsin’s hotly contested 3rd Congressional District race.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “needs to be fired or resign” following the fatal shooting of two Minnesota residents by federal immigration agents.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson called the U.S. military’s recent operation in Venezuela an “incredible success” shortly before voting against a resolution that would require Congress to sign off on further military action in the country.

The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington.

An effort in Washington to limit how members of Congress engage in stock trading has the backing of a bipartisan mix of former Wisconsin lawmakers.

Two state judicial panels held their first hearings Friday on lawsuits claiming Wisconsin’s eight U.S. House districts are unconstitutional, but they sent signals that the cases may not be resolved by the 2026 midterms.

The state Democratic Party’s fundraising haul for federal elections was more than four times larger than the state GOP’s last month, and the gap between what the two parties spent was even wider.

Despite a bipartisan deal that reopened the federal government Wednesday night, Republicans and Democrats in Wisconsin’s congressional delegation are still dug in along party lines over what the shutdown was all about in the first place.

As the government shutdown approaches its end, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites could see their health care costs soar.

Wisconsin businesses that sell hemp and THC-based products say a provision tucked in the bill to end the government shutdown will devastate their industry.