Tammy Baldwin for Congress Blog

Did you know that cranes are the most endangered family of birds in the world? Eleven of the world’s 15 species are at risk of extinction with the rarest being the North American Whooping Crane. Industrial development, pollution, war, and encroachments on their natural habitat have all contributed to the shrinking crane population worldwide.

Here in Wisconsin we have an im ...

Several years ago, Dr. James Allen, a veteran of the Korean War and an ophthalmologist who has worked at the VA Hospital in Madison for over 30 years, wrote to tell me about a gap in health care coverage facing many of his patients.

He informed me that veterans who suffered a service-connected blindness in one eye receive no additional VA compensation when they lose vision in the other eye. Dr. Allen believed this was unfair because had it not been for the first inju ...

Last week, three years after Christopher Reeve’s death, a bill named in his and his wife Dana’s honor passed a critical stage of the legislative process.

As I’m sure you all know, Reeve, who was a respected actor best known for his role as Superman, became paralyzed in 1995 as a result of a horse riding a ...

For years, I’ve been working hard to improve our country’s health care crisis. One of my efforts has been to renew and strengthen the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP), known as Badger Care in Wisconsin.

You know that I ran for Congress because I am committed to health care for all in America.  But it strikes me that, at a minimum, we have a moral obligation to cover all children.  That is why I have worke ...