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Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 18, 2024 in TV debate:

Says opponent Eric Hovde “opposes efforts to negotiate with the big pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of prescription drugs.”

By D.L. Davis • October 31, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 11, 2024 in Interview:

Says opponent Eric Hovde “supports a $4 trillion tax plan that would disproportionately advantage the well-off and profitable corporations”

By Laura Schulte • October 24, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 7, 2024 in Campaign ad:

Says opponent Eric Hovde “just proposed cutting Social Security by 28%.”

By Madeline Heim • October 21, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on July 23, 2024 in Public appearance:

Eric Hovde “wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and kick millions off their health insurance.”

By Hope Karnopp • August 7, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 5, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“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 they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”

By Madeline Heim • May 17, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 7, 2024 in Public appearance:

“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.”

By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 1, 2024 in Facebook post:

“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”

By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 21, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“Wisconsin had over 1,400 opioid overdose deaths in 2022.”

By Laura Schulte • February 6, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 8, 2022 in Twitter:

"Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men."

By D.L. Davis • December 16, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 4, 2022 in TV interview:

"Our Supreme Court has never taken away a constitutional right."

By Madeline Heim • June 3, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 16, 2022 in Twitter:

"The price of insulin has been jacked up by Big Drug Corporations.”

By D.L. Davis • April 8, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 19, 2022 in Senate:

On eliminating the filibuster.

By Laura Schulte • February 4, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 6, 2021 in Panel discussion:

“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.

By Laura Schulte • November 30, 2021
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 23, 2021 in News release:

"Over the past decade, drug prices have risen at three times the rate of inflation."

By Haley BeMiller • April 7, 2021
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 19, 2020 in Twitter:

“Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.”

By Laura Schulte • December 1, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 15, 2020 in a TV interview:

"We heard from the Department of Homeland Security ... that this was probably the most secure election that’s ever been run in the United States.”

By Madeline Heim • November 17, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 19, 2020 in a statement:

On whether to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year

By Eric Litke • September 22, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 15, 2020 in a tweet:

"The Trump Administration is trying to take food assistance away from Wisconsin families when people are out of work and struggling."

By D.L. Davis • June 1, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 10, 2019 in a tweet:

“Over the past two years, climate and weather disaster damage has cost the U.S. over $400 billion.”

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 5, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 19, 2020 in a TV appearance:

Witnesses have been part of "every other impeachment trial the Senate has ever had."

By Eric Litke • January 21, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 24, 2019 in a tweet:

"More Americans are uninsured today than when (President Donald) Trump took office."

By D.L. Davis • August 13, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 12, 2019 in a podcast:

29 states still don’t have "comprehensive protections" for people in the LGBTQ community.

By Mica Soellner • March 28, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 2, 2019 in a tweet:

"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."

By D.L. Davis • January 9, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 in a radio interview:

Says as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana carries a designation that means it "should not be researched"

By Eric Litke • November 21, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 in a radio interview:

Says VA doctors are "censored from being able to talk to their patients" about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use

By Eric Litke • November 9, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 26, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Says that after the overdose death of a Tomah VA veteran, she "brought both parties together to help pass a law" to "make the VA accountable and also to stop the overprescribing of" opioids.

By D.L. Davis • November 2, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 22, 2018 in a speech:

Under the Republican tax reform law, "83 percent of the benefits go to the top 1 percent of individuals and large multinational corporations."

By Tom Kertscher • October 26, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 20, 2018 in a TV ad:

"2.4 million people in Wisconsin have pre-existing conditions" and Leah Vukmir supports letting insurance companies "deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions."

By Tom Kertscher • October 8, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 10, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says Leah Vukmir was "just about the only legislator who stood with the insurance companies" and "voted against oral chemotherapy."

By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on August 5, 2018 in an interview:

On considering U.S. Supreme Court nominees.

By Tom Kertscher • September 13, 2018

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