Wrapped up Hill visits Thursday afternoon and got a late flight back to Michigan. Good to be home! In spite of what some folks think who live there, Washington DC is not the center of the universe… However, it is the seat of our federal government and if we hope affect federal policy change—as we must do […]

Today’s focus was on the Senate side. If you imagine the U.S. Capitol from the Mall, facing north, the Senate is on the left and the House on the right. The respective office buildings (Rayburn, Cannon, Longworth for the House , and Russell, Dirksen and Hart for the Senate) are located on either side of […]

So far I’ve visited with 5 Senate offices (Klobuchar, Peters, Baldwin, Sanders, Leahy) and 7 House members (Nolan (D-MN), Cramer (R-ND), Huizenga (R-MI), Welch (D-VT), Thompson (R-PA), Duffy (R-WI). Our strategy is to (1) try to get as many Republican co-sponsors as we can (we only have Paulsen from MN as an “R”); and (2) […]