Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02), a member of the House Educations and Workforce Committee, today issued the following statement on a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities which showed Wisconsin second only to Alabama in cuts to state funding for education since 2008:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02), a co-chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus, today issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic decisions in United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry, which struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and dismissed the California's Prop 8 case on a lack of standing:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) today issued the following statement on Speaker Boehner's announcement that he will sue President Obama on behalf of the House of Representatives over the use of executive actions that Republicans believe are beyond the President's authority:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) today sent a letter to Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Tony Evers, supporting the Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) full compliance with the United States Department of Justice's examination into potentially discriminatory practices occurring within the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program:
Full text of the letter is available below.
Dr. Tony Evers
Superintendent of Public Instruction
P.O. Box 7841
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02), a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, today issued the following statement on the Los Angeles Superior Court ruling in Vergara v. State of California:
Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, Congressman Ron Kind (WI-3), Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) and Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-2) have sent a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder asking that the same-sex couples in Wisconsin who have received marriage licenses be recognized for federal purposes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02), a co-chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus, today issued the following statement on President Obama's executive order which protects LGBT workers from employment discrimination by federal contractors:
MADISON – U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) today released the following statement after a phone conversation with an official from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clarifying its position on banning the practice of wood-aging in cheese making:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Louise Slaughter (D-NY), and Henry Waxman (D-CA), along with 114 of their House colleagues, today sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and United States Trade Representative Michael Froman insisting the United States stop any further negotiations with the government of Brunei Darussalam on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement until Brunei addresses its human rights violations – part of its newly adopted a penal code.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) today announced the finalists from Wisconsin's Second District in the 2014 House Student App Challenge.
"I was so pleased to see the creative work submitted by the young app developers in my district, and I commend their hard work," Pocan said. "The App Challenge focuses on the importance of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education at a time when subjects like computer programming are not widely taught in our high schools."