Congresswoman Moore Recognizes EITC Awareness Day
(Washington, DC) — Today on Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-04) encouraged eligible Milwaukee residents to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), one of the nation’s most effective anti-poverty tools that provides support to low-income workers and families.
“The EITC can make an incredible… Read more »
Wisconsin Examiner, Melanie Conklin and Allison Stevens
WASHINGTON/MADISON — Democrats and Republicans in Congress seem to agree on expanding access to paid family leave.
But they disagree on how to do it.
U.S. House lawmakers debated three bills on Capitol Hill this week that would take dramatically different approaches to expanding access to paid leave, with Democrats… Read more »
Rep. Moore Leads Call for Administration to Provide Full Funding for Programs to Prevent Combined Sewer Overflows in FY 2021 Budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, January 24, Congresswoman Gwen Moore led a bipartisan call for Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to make a budget request for no less than $500 million in funding for the EPA’s… Read more »
The Grio, Dawn Onley
Wisconsin Rep. Gwen Moore has seen discriminatory practices play out in the news, where Black people were asked to cut their hair to attend school or to participate in sporting events or to stay employed, and she is doing something about it.
The Democratic congresswoman who represents Wisconsin’s 4th district is teaming up with Rep. Cedric… Read more »
Wisconsin Examiner, Allison Stevens
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted Friday to pass a comprehensive legislative package that would crack down on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a class of chemicals known as PFAS that are said to cause serious health problems.
Used in tape, nonstick pans and other everyday substances, PFAS have been linked to cancer, decreased fertility,… Read more »
Congresswoman Moore Supports War Powers Resolution on the House floor
Today, the House voted on a War Powers Resolution (H. Con. Res. 83), to reassert Congress’s authority to declare war to prevent a catastrophic and needless war with Iran.
On the House floor, Congresswoman Moore made the following statement in support of the War Powers Resolution:
“Madam Speaker late last week,… Read more »
NY Times, Derrick Bryson Taylor
The police in Milwaukee were searching for a driver who is accused of shooting two children this weekend after they threw snowballs at passing cars, the authorities said.
At about 7:50 p.m. on Saturday, the Milwaukee Police Department responded to a shooting on West Birch Street, the department said in a statement.
Officers found a… Read more »
Fox 6 News, Bill Miston
MILWAUKEE -- A candlelight vigil was held Sunday, Dec. 29 for the homicide victims killed in Milwaukee in 2019.
Names of 120 victims were read aloud as a message of love was shared with those who lost someone to violence -- from names more recognizable in all corners of the city, like that of Milwaukee Police Officer Matthew Rittner, who was shot and killed in… Read more »
Wisconsin Examiner, Robin Bravender
WASHINGTON — The morning after they voted to impeach President Donald Trump, a group of U.S. House Democrats gathered outside of the Agriculture Department’s headquarters to berate the administration for a policy that’s expected to knock about 700,000 people off food stamp benefits nationwide.
As about a dozen House lawmakers huddled against the… Read more »
Fox 6 News, Suzanne Spencer
WASHINGTON -- Official votes are still coming in, but most were expected to vote along party lines -- except for one, who wasn't making his stance known initially -- on a night that will be remembered.
Wisconsin lawmakers weighed-in on a historic vote.
"We're talking about a president who subverted national security by soliciting foreign… Read more »
