by smw | Jul 23, 2020 | Op-Eds and Blogs
Originally published here by the Wall Street Journal on July 23, 2020.A near-record 158.8 million Americans were employed in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Then the novel coronavirus brought parts of the economy to a screeching halt. As of...
by smw | Jul 22, 2020 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson stopped an effort to burden American taxpayers Wednesday with the cost of an additional paid holiday for federal employees — at a cost that by some estimates would reach $6 billion over 10 years — and to do so without even...
by smw | Jul 21, 2020 | Jobs and the Economy, Press Releases
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Temporary Federal ESOP Grant Program Act Tuesday, legislation to recapitalize businesses as they resume operations...
by smw | Jul 7, 2020 | Newsletters
Honoring a Port Washington WWII HeroProud to announce I’m introducing legislation to rename the post office in Port Washington after World War II veteran Joe Demler. He worked there nearly four decades after surviving a Nazi POW camp.Joe Demler served...
by smw | Jul 3, 2020 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Friday they are withdrawing a proposed substitute amendment meant to protect taxpayers from the fiscal burden of having to fund an 11th paid holiday for federal employees....
