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December 11, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Barbara Lee (CA-12), co-chairs and co-founders of the Defense Spending Reduction Caucus, released the following statement after voting against the final passage of the $895 billion FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual bill neither member has voted for since being elected to Congress:

October 29, 2024

MADISON, WI – Today, Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-02) joined former Republican Congressman Reid Ribble (WI-08), co-chairs of Wisconsin’s DemocracyFIRST chapter, at a press conference to announce the success of the DemocracyFIRST pledge in Wisconsin.

October 29, 2024

MADISON, WI – Today, Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-02) joined former Republican Congressman Reid Ribble (WI-08), co-chairs of Wisconsin’s DemocracyFIRST chapter, at a press conference to announce the success of the DemocracyFIRST pledge in Wisconsin.

October 21, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan(WI-02) led 26 colleagues in a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy urging him to permanently suspend his Delivering for America plan, including by halting any further consolidation of processing centers and the planned national implementation of the Local Transportation Optimization initiative, which disproportionately impacts rural residents.

October 10, 2024

Washington, D.C. – Today, United States Representatives Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), reintroduced the Stop Wall Stre

September 25, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after he voted to extend government funding through December 20th:

September 19, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the one-year anniversary of U.S.

July 24, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) released the following statement announcing he will not be attending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Joint Address to Congress. 

July 1, 2024

MADISON, WI – Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) released the following statement after the United States Supreme Court ruled that all U.S. presidents are immune to official acts: