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Thank you for reading my newsletter. Here's a summary of last week:
Message from Congressman Scott Fitzgerald
Good morning!
I hope everyone is enjoying the end of their summer. It’s been great to be back in SE Wisconsin, especially with a successful line up of office hours last week across the district.
While things are quieter on Capitol Hill with Members out, rest assured House Republicans are still hard at work, particularly in holding the Biden Family accountable. The House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee have been investigating Hunter Biden, the Biden family, and the alleged payments they’ve received from foreign countries. Watch my interview here on Fox Business where I spoke about the latest on the investigations.
I’ve be traveling around the district throughout the month to pay visits to businesses and communities — it’s been great to see many of you around, and for those I haven’t seen yet, I hope to see you soon!
Have a great week!
- Scott
Office Hours in the District
One of the great parts about August recess is having the opportunity and time to travel across the entire district to check-in on communities and businesses. I’ve been doing exactly that: last week I stopped by Johnson Creek, Dousman, and Kewaskum to host office hours for anyone who had questions or wanted to talk about the latest legislative activity happening in Washington, D.C.
I had an opportunity to speak with community members about rail safety, the national debt limit, and election integrity, among many other issues.
I always appreciate the opportunity to hear about the issues most important you—so thank you to all who stopped by!
Penned a Column on Creating a Fairer Federal Trade Commission
In our rapidly evolving marketplace, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plays a pivotal role in safeguarding consumers' interests and promoting fair competition. However, as our economic landscape has continued to shift, so too has our political environment. Ever since Lina Kahn was appointed as Chair of the commission in 2021, at the direction of President Biden, the agency has taken a turn for the worse.
The agency has become little more than an ultra-partisan body, ignoring dissenting voices, defying the rule of law and disregarding congressionally imposed limits on agency jurisdiction in favor of advancing radical left policies. While there is a mountain of work that must be undertaken to reform the agency, I’ve proposed a bill that I believe will chart us on a course for a fairer and more balanced FTC.
The need for a more accountable FTC is apparent now more than ever. My proposal, the Fair and Balanced FTC Act, would prohibit the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from acting unless there is at least one Commissioner serving from a different party than the Chair. This would incentivize the President to nominate and confirm Commissioners to ensure a functioning body includes minority Commissioners to provide feedback and dissent on harmful FTC actions.
Read the full column on my latest legislative push here.
Met with the Bruno Team
I was grateful to have an opportunity to check-in with the team at Bruno Independent Living Aids—a family owned, veteran-founded small business based in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
For over 35 years, Bruno has engineered and manufactured specialty products serving seniors and disabled veterans including stair lifts, mobility scooters, and power chair lifts.
Bruno provides a number these products to the VA for the purposes of providing mobility assistance to disabled veterans. One of Bruno’s mobility devices, the “Chariot”, is a unique vehicle lift designed to transport heavy mobility devices (e.g., scooters, wheelchairs) without the need for a large SUV. I was great to learn more about the teams revolutionary equipment that serves a very important community: our veterans.
Tour of John Deere West Campus
John Deere’s Horicon Works facility has been in operation for more than 100 years, so I was very excited to visit the campus last week to see what the team is working on!
The factory is more than 1.2 million square-feet and employs more than 1,100 people.
The Horicon Works facility primarily manufactures lawn equipment and small tractors but, in 2016 completed a $42.9 million, 388,000 square foot expansion to begin manufacture of the Gator recreational utility vehicle. A lot of important work being done here in the district!
A special thanks to the team at John Deere for hosting me.
Green & Gold Congressional Aide Program
ICYMI, my office is seeking a veteran for a position in WI-05’s Oconomowoc district office. If you or a person you know are interested, I encourage you to apply!
The person chosen for the special position will work with military and veteran constituents to handle veterans-related casework and act as a facilitator between constituents and federal, state, and local agencies.
The Green & Gold Congressional Aide Program was established by the House of Representatives to provide employment opportunities for veterans within member offices.
The program is limited to veterans who meet all of the following requirements:
- Honorably discharged
- Released from active duty within the last six years
- Terminal pay grades at or below E-5, O-3, or W-2
- Veterans promoted to the pay grades of E-6, O-4, and W-3 within 6-months of separation from active duty are eligible, granted they meet ALL other eligibility requirements.
- Veterans who are in receipt of a 20-year or Temporary Early Retirement Authorization (TERA) retirement are not eligible for the program.
Click here to learn more about the job posting.
Congressional App Competition
I am are pleased to announce that my office will be participating in the Congressional App Challenge (CAC), a competition designed to encourage student participation in computer science and coding.
The Congressional App Challenge is open to all middle school and high school students who reside in or attend a school in Wisconsin’s Fifth District. Students may compete as individuals or in teams of up to four, as long as two of the teammates are eligible to participate (reside in the 5th Congressional district).
A panel of judges from Wisconsin’s Fifth District will select the winning entry, and the winning app will be eligible to be featured on a display in the United States Capitol building, on the ‘House.gov’ website, and on the Congressional App Challenge website.
Students can register and find more information on the Congressional App Challenge website at: https://www.congressionalappchallenge.us/ and visit the “Students” section.
Submissions are due November 1, 2023 at 5:00 pm CT.
Interested in a Service Academy Nomination? Don’t Miss Academy Day!
Interested in a Service Academy Nomination? If so, I am pleased to invite all interested students, teachers, and parents to join staff from Wisconsin's Congressional Delegation to meet representatives from the Air Force Academy, Coast Guard Academy, Merchant Marine Academy, Military Academy, and Naval Academy. This event is a terrific opportunity to learn if a military academy is the right fit for your student and what steps you can take to have a successful path into our nation’s most revered academies.
Logistical details are below:
Date: Saturday, September 16, 2023
Time: 9 A.M. — 12:30 P.M.
Place: Experimental Aircraft Association
EAA Aviation Center
3000 Poberezny Road Oshkosh, WI 54902
That’s a wrap for this week’s eNewsletter! Follow me on Twitter and Facebook to stay up to date on my work for the 5th District of Wisconsin.
Sincerely,
Scott Fitzgerald
Member of Congress
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