2021-'22 Press Releases

Representative Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) is currently accepting nominations for the 35th Assembly District’s 2021 First Responder of the Year Award. Our dedicated first responders, including police officers, fire fighters, and EMS personnel, work selflessly every day to keep our families and...

Representative Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) and his legislative colleagues have launched a new website that gives all Wisconsin residents the opportunity to draw and submit their own maps to the legislature for review. “Wisconsin’s Constitution requires the new boundary lines be drawn through...

During today’s extraordinary State Assembly floor session, Representative Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) voted to override Governor Evers’ veto of Assembly Bill (AB) 336. This bill would end the state’s participation in federal unemployment compensation enhancement programs. Employers around the...

On Tuesday State Representative Calvin Callahan (R - Tomahawk) joined his Republican Assembly colleagues in passing a balanced state budget for the 2021-2023 biennium. This budget includes historic property and income tax cuts, an unprecedented investment in K-12 schools, and historic levels of...

Earlier this session, Rep. Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) held several 2021-23 State Budget listening sessions throughout the 35th Assembly District and distributed a spring survey via mail and online to hear from constituents about their concerns and what they would like to see included in this...

About 1,200 Wisconsin municipalities are eligible to receive Local Government Recovery Funds (LGRF) through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and have not yet filed. The deadline is this Friday, June 18, 2021. Authorized uses of the funds are as follows...

During Wednesday’s Assembly floor session, the State Assembly approved a proposal authored by State Representative Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) that will return the state’s unemployment insurance (UI) program back to pre-pandemic operations and encourage unemployed individuals to return to work...

During Tuesday’s Assembly floor session, State Representative Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) supported a package of three bills that together work towards ending elder abuse in Wisconsin. The bill proposals are a result of former Attorney General Brad Schimel’s elder abuse task force. The bills...

Today, the Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) took its first votes on the unworkable, unrealistic, and unsustainable state budget proposal that Governor Evers sent to the Legislature. The governor’s liberal wish list would not only be the largest increase in spending in nearly 20 years, but also...

During today’s floor session, Representative Calvin Callahan (R-Tomahawk) voted in favor of a package of bills that uses one-time federal stimulus dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) to invest in Wisconsin’s priorities that have been hit the hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic...