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On May 6, 2020, U.S. Representative Bryan Steil (R-WI, 1st District) and officials from the Federal Trade Commission, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, and AARP held a telephone town hall to provide our community with information to prevent, identify, and report scams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expanding the capability of testing for COVID-19 may be key to safely reopening the economy according to a local Congressman. Bryan Steil of Janesville says testing capabilities aren't improving at the speed he'd like. The Republican says he'd like to see more funding at the federal level to expand testing. He says with summer almost here, popular tourism site in Wisconsin will likely suffer economically, if people don't feel safe. Steil also adds politicising the crisis is detrimental to recovery.
Two Wisconsin companies, a Georgia-based manufacturer and a first-term U.S. congressman have worked together to get tens of thousands of gowns produced for front-line medical workers.
It usually takes weeks to start this process. They pulled it off in a matter of hours.
Like most collaborations, it started with a phone call.
Since in-person town hall meetings are off the table for the foreseeable future, Congressman Bryan Steil, R-Janesville, and Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm held a telephone town hall about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and government's response at the state and national level.
During his opening statements, Steil pointed to the two bills that have passed the house in response to the pandemic but admitted that the county's capacity for testing for coronavirus was lagging behind.
Wisconsin Congressman Bryan Steil said he is confident the federal government is doing all it can to address the coronavirus. Steil met with Vice President Mike Pence at the White House on Tuesday, March 3 -- and shared the conversation with FOX6 News.
In a room typically reserved for war, 14 members of Congress met with the vice president to tackle a new enemy -- coronavirus.
"I walked away from the briefing far more confident that we are doing everything we can to address this disease," Steil said.
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., are throwing their support behind legislative efforts to aid the Great Lakes.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act to reauthorize and expand funding for the Great Lakes. Steil voted for the measure.
Baldwin, a member of the Senate Great Lakes Task Force, is calling on the Senate to take action and pass the bipartisan act.
Rep. Bryan Steil, R-1st District, has introduced a bill that would increase federal spending on veterans cemeteries.
Steil co-introduced HR 5487, the Veterans Cemetery Grants Improvement Act, with Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan of the Northern Mariana Islands and member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, according to a Steil news release.
Sablan is an independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
MILWAUKEE -- Cemeteries for our veterans could be getting more funding. A new bill introduced by Congressman Bryan Steil on Monday, Feb. 3 could double the amount of grant money dished out by the federal government each year.
Right now, there is a budget of $5 million to assist every veteran cemetery in the country with upkeep projects. It is clearly not enough. But the bill being proposed hopes to address that issue.
You would never know from looking at the snow-covered Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Union Grove that it is a busy place.
WISCONSIN (CBS 58) -- A bipartisan bill in Washington could help improve the condition of state-run veteran cemeteries.
Congressman Bryan Steil introduced the Veterans Cemetery Grants Improvement Act in December.
Flanked by veterans, the Janesville republican outlined specifics of the bill at a press conference in Union Grove Monday, Feb. 3.
He says the legislation would double the amount of federal grants available to state-run veteran cemeteries.
More than 16,000 veterans and their family members have been laid to rest at the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in the town of Dover since it was established in 1998.
With approximately 1,000 more interments per year, it is considered the fifth busiest state cemetery in the U.S.
With veterans from the Vietnam War and other 20th century conflicts aging, Congress is keeping an eye and working on making sure these state-run veterans cemeteries can continue to be sustainable.