Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald is a U.S. Representative, R-Wisconsin, for the state's 5th Congressional District. He took office in 2021. He previously served as the state's Senate Majority Leader. He was first elected as state senator in 1994.
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Lawmaker’s claim that mask mandates harm early childhood development falls short of scientific proof
"Mask mandates on children lead to learning loss that harms early childhood development."
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“More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief.”
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The 2020 election is in “recount territory” and “I’ve seen elections change as a result of” recounts.
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Wisconsin has “no tracing program going on that we can speak of."
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Universal background checks involve asking people "to submit the serial numbers to their guns to a state or federal official," and that violates the Second…
One of every two Wisconsin residents are "on some kind of government handout."
Wisconsin was embroiled in a "constitutional crisis" brought on by the Democratic senators fleeing the state for Illinois to block Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.…
On the night of the Wisconsin state Senate vote on the budget package, "a mob showed up and busted down the door and took over…
"We continue to see these isolated incidents of people trying to vote five, six times a day."