Register to listen to a Conversation with Senator Tammy Baldwin. In the Senate, Baldwin has been a champion of Buy American policies and a strong advocate for Wisconsin’s manufacturing economy. In response to the public health and economic crisis we face, Senator Baldwin has worked across party lines to provide relief to small businesses and workers in Kenosha and throughout Wisconsin. Senator Baldwin voted for the American Rescue Plan Act that was signed into law to provide Wisconsin more federal resources to support families, small businesses, workers, and local governments so we can get past this pandemic together and move our economy forward.

Senator Baldwin serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee and is the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration. In addition, Baldwin is a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. She has a long history of service to Wisconsin and in 1998, Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District elected Tammy to Congress. After serving 14 years in the House of Representatives, Tammy was elected to the Senate in 2012 and she was reelected in 2018. Senator Tammy Baldwin was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised by her grandparents in the Badger State. Her grandfather was a scientist at the University of Wisconsin and her grandmother was a seamstress at the university theater company. Tammy graduated from Madison West High School and went on to double-major in political science and mathematics at Smith College. In 1989, she received her law degree from UW-Madison.