Today, Congressman Glenn Grothman (WI-06) released the following statement after news that Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has made a public assertion that vitamins D and C can “lessen your susceptibility to infection” and recommended that people take vitamin D supplements as he does. In April, Grothman sent a letter to Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Stephen Hahn, Commissioner of the...
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Congressmen Glenn Grothman (WI-06) introduced legislation to help increase competition in the insulin market, expand availability to affordable insulin products and lower costs to patients who depend on insulin. The Biosimilar Insulin Access Act will waive interchangeability requirements for insulin products granted biosimilar approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This would enable pharmacists to dispense and patients to choose which biosimilar insulin product works best for their ...
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By: Congressman Mike Gallagher Press Release GREEN BAY, WI — Rep. Mike Gallagher (WI-08) today led members of the Wisconsin delegation in calling on the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Sonny Perdue, and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, to reconsider dietary guidelines that prohibit full-fat dairy products from being included in federal programs, such as school lunch programs. The lawmakers wrote, "Full-fat dairy products ...
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Congressmen Glenn Grothman (WI-06) has introduced the Epi for Dilly Act, a bill that will incentivize states to allow “good Samaritans” to save lives. The bill was inspired by Dillon Mueller, a Mishicot native who tragically passed away in 2014 at the age of 18 after being stung by a bee and falling into a coma due to anaphylaxis. Dillon was unable to receive Epinephrine in a timely manner. Read more about Dillon’s story here. A version of Grothman’s bill has already been signed into law in Wisc...
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(Fond du Lac, Wis.) – Today, Congressman Glenn Grothman (WI-06) released the following statement on the rioting and destruction in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “I have been saddened, but no longer shocked, by what has happened in Kenosha over the last few nights,” said Grothman. “While we have seen real examples of police violence and brutality, we have also seen examples of police confrontations in which officers have been vilified and judged guilty before all of the facts have come in. I am very disapp...
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Today at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) questioned U.S. Postmaster General, The Honorable Louis DeJoy, about the current state of the United States Postal Service (USPS) and their ability to handle the increase in mail-in ballots for the 2020 general election. Saturday, August 22, 2020: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that authorizes $25 billion to be sent to the USPS to aid in the handling of mail-in ballots for the November e...
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Congressmen Glenn Grothman (WI-06) today announced that he has adopted Pastor A Dao, a Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience, through the Defending Freedoms Project of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. Pastor A Dao is a Protestant pastor of the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ (MECC) and an advocate for religious freedom. On August 18, 2016, Pastor A Dao was arrested in Vietnam and sentenced to five years in prison for “helping individuals to escape abroad illegally”. A Dao maintained h...
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Congressmen Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) has officially introduced the Responsible Borrowing Act. This bill will help alleviate excessive student loan debt by allowing institutions of higher education to implement guard rails on how much money students can borrow. Some people take decades to repay their loans and agonize over how much money they borrowed. Some realize that they are putting their life on hold because so much of their paycheck goes to their lender. Some cut costs, get a second job and ...
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By: Heather Mac Donald for the Wall Street Journal George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a “new normal,” in which bigotry no longer “infects our institutions and our hea...
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By: Dominick Mastrangelo for The Washington Examiner Sen. Marsha Blackburn urged the National Basketball Association to use profits from the league's relationship with China to create a foundation dedicated to protecting human rights around the world. "If Adam Silver does not extricate himself from the Chinese Communist Party, then the NBA is going to become the National Beijing Association in about 10 years," Blackburn said in a video posted to her Twitter account on Wednesday. Blackburn, one o...
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