by Bob Hague | Jul 27, 2016
At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, a Wisconsin congressman gets heckled on a hot button issue – the Trans Pacific Partnership. It happened as La Crosse Democrat Ron Kind spoke with the media after talking with Wisconsin delegates on Wednesday...
by Bob Hague | Apr 19, 2018
President Donald Trump is apparently changing his mind again, on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trump tweeted this week that TPP has “too many contingencies and no way to get out if it doesn’t work.” Trump made U.S. exit from the trade pact one of the...
by Bob Hague | Jan 23, 2017
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday which formally ends U.S. participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The controversial trade deal was already going nowhere in Congress, but Trump’s action was a follow-though to his stated...
by Andrew Beckett | Aug 29, 2016
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold is pledging to fight against trade deals that he believes hurt American workers. Speaking to a meeting of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO in Madison, Feingold said the state has for years felt the effects of trade deals that...
by Bob Hague | Mar 1, 2016
Democrat Russ Feingold is calling on his Republican opponent, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, to join him in opposing the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Feingold made the call Monday, while addressing a union group, the state Council of Machinists conference...
by Bob Hague | Jul 28, 2016
A top Wisconsin Democrat says opposition to a controversial trade deal unites the party. At the Democratic National Convention, Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca of Kenosha says the Trans Pacific Partnership is something that unites Democrats in Philadelphia....
by Bob Hague | Jul 26, 2016
Some Bernie Sanders delegates may walk out of the Democratic National Convention if Sanders doesn’t win the party’s presidential nomination during Tuesday’s roll call vote in Philadelphia. John Hendrick – a Sanders delegate from Madison –...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 22, 2016
A retired high school history teacher is mounting a Democratic primary challenge against Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind. Myron Buchholz of Eau Claire says he’s worried about growing poverty rates in the Third Congressional District and statewide, which are...
by Bob Hague | Jun 5, 2015
Wisconsin Democrats are eager to defeat Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, and they’re banking on former Senator Russ Feingold, who lost to Johnson in 2010, as the candidate who can get the job done. Feingold received an enthusiastic welcome from delegates attending...
by Bob Hague | Apr 20, 2015
Divisions among congressional Democrats over fast track authority for a new trade deal are mirrored among Wisconsin’s representatives in Washington, D.C., where one Democratic member of state’s congressional delegation is issuing a warning about the deal....
by Bob Hague | Apr 13, 2018
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a re-entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan says that’s not what Trump campaigned on here in the state. “I just think if he does that it would be really turning his...
by WRN Contributor | Nov 23, 2016
President-Elect Donald Trump has said he’d pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and work on bi-lateral trade agreements. Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson says while TPP may be dead, the US has to stay engaged. “The fact of the matter is it sounds like...
by Bob Hague | Jul 25, 2016
Wisconsin’s delegate votes at the DNC could be nearly evenly split between Sanders and Hillary Clinton, mirroring the larger effort to have the party coalesce around its candidate in Philadelphia this week. A Clinton delegate from Milwaukee says there are some...
by Bob Hague | Jun 12, 2015
In what’s being seem as setback for President Barack Obama, House Democrats voted Friday to reject a key component required for passage before lawmakers can grant the president fast-track trade authority on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal....
by Andrew Beckett | Jul 30, 2014
As work continues on new federal trade agreements, some farmers are raising concerns about the impact those deals could have on Wisconsin agriculture. Close door negotiations have been underway on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and...
