Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012 and has since been re-elected. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
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Says opponent Eric Hovde “opposes efforts to negotiate with the big pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of prescription drugs.”
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Says opponent Eric Hovde “supports a $4 trillion tax plan that would disproportionately advantage the well-off and profitable corporations”
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Says opponent Eric Hovde “just proposed cutting Social Security by 28%.”
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Eric Hovde “wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and kick millions off their health insurance.”
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“When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until…
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“We’re facing situations these days where you have to have two officers in the evidence room in case there’s an accidental (fentanyl) exposure.”
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“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”
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“Wisconsin had over 1,400 opioid overdose deaths in 2022.”
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"Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men."
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"Our Supreme Court has never taken away a constitutional right."