Sen. Erpenbach speaks on legislation to prohibit text messaging while driving.
Sen. Erpenbach explains his legislation that fills a loophole in the hit-and-run law.
President Obama held a town hall meeting on health care attended by Senator Jon Erpenbach. Erpenbach is a part of working group of state legislators working with the White House helping shape the Presidents proposal and bringing the message of his health care plan to their home states.
November 16, 2009
Madison – Representative Mark Pocan and Senator Jon Erpenbach unveiled their action plan today on the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act to allow seriously ill Wisconsin residents access to a medicine to ease their pain. Announced today is a combined public hearing with the Assembly Public Health Committee and the Senate Health, Health Insurance, Privacy, Property Tax Relief and Revenue Committee for December 15th....
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September 15, 2009
Madison – Senator Jon Erpenbach, author of Wisconsin’s popular “Do Not Call” Law, is pleased an increase in penalties and fines for breaking the law passed the Senate today....
READ MORESeptember 4, 2009
Labor Day provides communities the opportunity to celebrate how unions have helped shape the workplace with laws that are applied every day in Wisconsin. The 40 hour work week, overtime for hourly employees, child labor restrictions, work safety laws, cooperatives, family and medical leave, minimum wage, health care benefits delivered through employment and even social security were all laws directly shaped by the labor movement in the United States and Wisconsin. Changes in workforce laws that affect nearly all of our families are ongoing even now at the state and local level....
READ MOREAugust 21, 2009
The recently announced extension of Wisconsin’s SeniorCare program is great news for our senior citizens. This wildly popular program saves older adults in Wisconsin on prescription drugs and is widely regarded as a much stronger than the Federal Medicare Part D program that was set to replace it at the end of this year barring the Federal action. Last year the Bush administration refused the extension of SeniorCare but the new Obama administration granted a three year extension to carry the program through 2012. This announcement was made this week in Sun Prairie....
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