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Tammy Baldwin
Baldwin in 2023
Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2017
DeputyBrian Schatz
LeaderChuck Schumer
Preceded byPatty Murray
United States Senator
from Wisconsin
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2013
Serving with Ron Johnson
Preceded byHerb Kohl
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2013
Preceded byScott Klug
Succeeded byMark Pocan
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
from the 78th district
In office
January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1999
Preceded byDavid Clarenbach
Succeeded byMark Pocan
Personal details
Born
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin

(1962-02-11) February 11, 1962 (age 62)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Domestic partners
  • Lauren Azar (1998–2010)
  • Maria Brisbane (2018–present)
Relations
Education
Signature
WebsiteSenate website
Tammy Baldwin's voice
Baldwin speaks on sexual assault within the U.S. military
Recorded November 19, 2013

Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962)[1] is an American politician and lawyer serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin and since 2023 as the dean of the United States congressional delegation from Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as the Wisconsin state assemblywoman from Wisconsin's 78th Assembly district from 1993 to 1999, and seven terms as the United States congresswoman from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district from 1999 to 2013. She was elected a United States senator from Wisconsin in 2012 and reelected in a landslide in 2018.

As an openly lesbian woman, Baldwin has made history several times through her electoral success. In 1998, she became the first openly lesbian woman elected to the United States Congress, the first openly LGBT person elected to Congress as a non-incumbent, and the first woman elected to Congress from Wisconsin. In 2012, she became the first openly lesbian woman and first openly LGBT person elected to the United States Senate as well as the first woman elected to the Senate from Wisconsin.[2][3][4]

Baldwin has a progressive voting record on healthcare and LGBT rights.[5] She is running for reelection to a third term in the 2024 election against Republican nominee Eric Hovde.

Early life and education

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Baldwin was born and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. Her mother, who died in 2017, was 19 and going through a divorce when Baldwin was born. Baldwin was raised by her grandparents and spent Saturdays with her mother, who suffered from mental illness and opioid addiction.[6] Her maternal grandfather, biochemist David E. Green, was Jewish (the son of immigrants from Russia and Germany), and her maternal grandmother, who was Anglican, was English-born.[7] Baldwin's aunt is biochemist Rowena Green Matthews. Through her maternal grandfather, Baldwin is a third cousin of comedian Andy Samberg.[8][9]

Baldwin graduated from Madison West High School in 1980 as the class valedictorian. She earned a B.A. from Smith College in 1984 and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1989.[10] She was a lawyer in private practice from 1989 to 1992.[11]

Wisconsin Assembly (1993–1999)

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Elections

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Before entering state politics, Baldwin first held political office in 1986 at age 24, when she was elected to the Dane County Board of Supervisors, on which she served until 1994.[12] She also served one year on the Madison Common Council to fill a vacancy in the coterminous district.[13]

Baldwin ran to represent Wisconsin's 78th Assembly district in central Madison in 1992. She won the Democratic primary with 43% of the vote.[14] In the general election, Baldwin defeated Labor and Farm Party nominee Mary Kay Baum and Republican nominee Patricia Hevenor, 59%–23%–17%.[15] She was one of just six openly gay political candidates nationwide to win a general election that year.[16]

Baldwin was reelected with 76% of the vote in 1994.[17] She was reelected to a third term with 71% of the vote in 1996.[18]

Committee assignments

  • Criminal Justice Committee[19]
  • Education Committee (Chair)[20]
  • Elections, Constitutional Law and Corrections Committee[21]

U.S. House of Representatives (1999–2013)

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Baldwin presiding over the House while serving as Speaker Pro Tempore, 2007

Elections

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In 1998, U.S. Congressman Scott Klug of the 2nd district, based in Madison, announced he would retire, prompting Baldwin to run for the seat. Baldwin's ads leaned into the fact that Wisconsin had never sent a woman to Congress, and many of her ads targeted younger voters.[22] She won the Democratic primary with a plurality of 37% of the vote.[23] In the general election, she defeated Republican nominee Josephine Musser, 53%–47%.[24] Baldwin's campaign drew strong turnout in Dane County, using a team of volunteers, many of whom were students. The turnout was said to have helped Russ Feingold's reelection campaign that year, and was acknowledged by Feingold as a factor.[25]

Baldwin was the first woman elected to Congress from Wisconsin. She was also the first openly gay non-incumbent elected to the House of Representatives, and the first open lesbian elected to Congress.[2][3] She and Representative Barney Frank co-founded the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus in 2008.[26]

In 2000, Baldwin was reelected, defeating Republican nominee John Sharpless 51%–49%, a difference of 8,902 votes. She lost eight of the district's nine counties, but carried the largest, Dane County, with 55% of the vote.[27]

After the 2000 census the 2nd district was made significantly more Democratic in redistricting. Baldwin won reelection to a third term in the newly redrawn 2nd district with 66% of the vote against Republican Ron Greer.[28] In 2004, she beat Dave Magnum 63%–37%.[29] She won a 2006 rematch against Magnum, again winning 63%–37%.[30] In 2008, she defeated Peter Theron 69%–31%,[31] and in 2010 she won a seventh term with 62% of the vote against Chad Lee.[32]

Committee assignments

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U.S. Senate (2013–present)

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Elections

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2012

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Main article: 2012 United States Senate election in Wisconsin
Baldwin and Thompson debating during the 2012 election

Baldwin ran as the Democratic nominee against Republican nominee Tommy Thompson, who had formerly been governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services. She announced her candidacy on September 6, 2011, in a video emailed to supporters.[33] She ran uncontested in the primary election,[34] and spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention about tax policy, campaign finance reform, and equality in the United States.[35]

She was endorsed by Democracy for America, and she received campaign funding from EMILY's List, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, and LPAC.[36] Baldwin was endorsed by the editorial board of The Capital Times, who wrote that "Baldwin's fresh ideas on issues ranging from job creation to health care reform, along with her proven record of working across lines of partisanship and ideology, and her grace under pressure mark her as precisely the right choice to replace retiring U.S. Senator Herb Kohl".[37]

Thompson said during the campaign that Baldwin's "far-left approach leaves this country in jeopardy".[38] The candidates had three debates, on September 28,[39][40] October 18,[41] and October 26.[42] According to Baldwin's Federal Election Commission filings, she raised about $12 million, over $5 million more than Thompson.[43]

Baldwin's official portrait, 2013

On November 6, 2012, Baldwin became the first openly gay candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate, with 51.4% of the vote. Because of her 14 years in the House of Representatives, under Senate rules she had the highest seniority in her entering class of senators.[44] She was succeeded in Congress by State Assemblyman Mark Pocan, who had earlier succeeded her in the state legislature.

Baldwin was featured in Time's November 19, 2012, edition, in the Verbatim section, where she was quoted as saying "I didn't run to make history" on her historic election.[45] In a separate section, she was also mentioned as a new face to watch in the Senate.[46]

2018

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Main article: 2018 United States Senate election in Wisconsin

Baldwin won a second term in 2018 with 55.4% of the vote, defeating Republican Leah Vukmir by a margin of approximately 11%.[47]

2024

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Main article: 2024 United States Senate election in Wisconsin

In April 2023, Baldwin announced her intention to run for re-election to the U.S. Senate.[48] Baldwin faces Republican nominee Eric Hovde in the 2024 general election.[49]

Committee assignments

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Baldwin questions the Secretary of Agriculture while on the Senate Appropriations Committee, 2017.

Caucus memberships

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Political positions

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Baldwin speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

In 2003, Baldwin served on the advisory committee of the Progressive Majority, a political action committee dedicated to electing progressive candidates to public office.[52]

In October 2012, Baldwin described herself as a progressive in the mold of former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator Robert M. La Follette.[53] In 2013, she and Wisconsin's senior U.S. Senator, Ron Johnson, split on votes more frequently than any other Senate duo from the same state.[54]

Baldwin is a member of the Afterschool Caucuses.[55] According to a 2011 National Journal survey, she was among the most liberal members of the House.[56] As of 2012, her voting record made her one of the most liberal members of Congress.[57][58][52][59] On October 20, 2013, Baldwin was one of 16 female Democratic senators to sign a letter endorsing Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee in the 2016 presidential election.[60] In 2023, the Lugar Center ranked Baldwin in the top third of senators for bipartisanship.[61]

Agriculture

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Baldwin with former Governor of Georgia and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in 2017

In 2018, Baldwin wrote the Dairy Business Innovation Act, which created a grant program for dairy businesses.[62][63] Baldwin and eight other Democratic senators sent United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue a letter in 2019 that criticized the USDA for purchasing pork from JBS USA and called it "counterproductive and contradictory" for companies to receive funding from "U.S. taxpayer dollars intended to help American farmers struggling with this administration's trade policy." The senators requested that the department "ensure these commodity purchases are carried out in a manner that most benefits the American farmer’s bottom line—not the business interests of foreign corporations."[64]

Bush administration

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Baldwin cosponsored H. Res. 333, a bill in 2007 proposing articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, and H. Res. 589, a bill proposing the impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. She wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "I joined with my colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee, Reps. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) and Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), in urging Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to conduct hearings on a resolution of impeachment now pending consideration in that committee." She added that although some constituents "say I have gone too far", others "argue I have not gone far enough" and feel "we are losing our democracy and that I should do more to hold the Bush administration accountable for its actions."[65]

Climate change

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Baldwin was one of 25 Democratic senators to cosponsor a resolution in 2018 in response to findings of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change report and National Climate Assessment. The resolution affirmed the senators' acceptance of the findings and their support for bold action to address climate change.[66] Baldwin was a member of the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, which published a report of its findings in August 2020.[67]

Crime

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In 1995, Baldwin proposed the creation of a review board to investigate the deaths of prison inmates.[68] In 1997, she authored a bill changing Wisconsin's candidate filing system to an electronic one.[69] Baldwin opposes capital punishment in Wisconsin.[70]

Drug policy

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Baldwin highlights her work to reduce asthma inhaler costs to $35 per month, 2024.

Baldwin was one of 17 senators to sign a letter to President-elect Donald Trump in 2016 asking him to fulfill a campaign pledge to bring down the cost of prescription drugs, stating their willingness "to advance measures to achieve this goal" and calling on Trump "to partner with Republicans and Democrats alike to take meaningful steps to address the high cost of prescription drugs through bold administrative and legislative actions."[71]

She and 30 other senators signed a letter to Kaléo Pharmaceuticals in 2017 in response to the opioid-overdose-reversing device Evzio rising in price from $690 in 2014 to $4,500 and requested the company detail the price structure for Evzio, how many devices Kaléo Pharmaceuticals set aside for donation, and the totality of federal reimbursements Evzio received in the previous year.[72]

Baldwin was one of six senators to sign a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2017 requesting their "help in ensuring the long-term sustainability of the 340B program", a Trump administration rule mandating that drug companies give discounts to health-care organizations presently serving large numbers of low-income patients.[73]

Economic policy

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Baldwin pushes for domestic shipbuilding and federal action on China's unfair trade practices, 2024.

In a 2015 radio interview, Baldwin said that she, the Pope, and Donald Trump all supported repeal of the carried interest tax loophole. PolitiFact wrote that "while Pope Francis has called for helping the poor and addressing economic inequality, we could not find that [Trump] has spoken out on this particular tax break."[74] In 2016, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a business-oriented lobbying group that usually supports Republican candidates, gave her a 32% cumulative score on "key business votes".[75]

The editors of The Capital Times commended Baldwin for her vocal opposition to a budget resolution in 2017 that she believed would increase income inequality, calling her "one of the budget's most ardent foes".[76] She expressed opposition to the Trump tax-reform bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, saying that it was being drafted "behind closed doors" and charging that it was being "shoved through." In its place she promoted the Stronger Way Act, a bill that she and Cory Booker co-sponsored.[77]

Baldwin sponsored the Reward Work Act of 2018, which proposed to guarantee the right of employees in listed companies to elect one-third of the board of directors.[78] She signed a letter to United States Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta in 2019 that advocated that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) make a full investigation into a complaint filed in May by a group of Chicago-area McDonald's employees that detailed instances of workplace violence, such as customers throwing hot coffee and threatening employees with firearms. The senators argued that McDonald's could and should "do more to protect its employees, but employers will not take seriously their obligations to provide a safe workplace if OSHA does not enforce workers rights to a hazard-free workplace."[79]

Baldwin supports Buy America rules and routinely advocates for their inclusion in federal funding bills.[80][81]

Trade

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Baldwin visits Fairbanks Morse Defense to promote domestic manufacturing, 2024.

Baldwin was one of 12 senators to sign a letter to President Obama in 2016 asserting that the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership "in its current form will perpetuate a trade policy that advantages corporations at the expense of American workers" and that there would be an "erosion of U.S. manufacturing and middle class jobs, and accelerate the corporate race to the bottom" if provisions were not fixed.[82]

In 2024, Baldwin was one of a handful of Democrats credited with ending President Joe Biden’s proposed Indo-Pacific trade agenda. She was quoted saying, “There were some big concerns that we would be retreating back to the day where trade was a race to the bottom, especially for workers.”[83]

Antitrust, competition, and corporate regulation

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Baldwin was one of six Democrats led by Amy Klobuchar to sign letters in 2019 to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice recounting that many of them had "called on both the FTC and the Justice Department to investigate potential anticompetitive activity in these markets, particularly following the significant enforcement actions taken by foreign competition enforcers against these same companies" and requesting that each agency confirm whether it had opened antitrust investigations into each company and that each agency pledge it would publicly release any such investigations' findings.[84]

Foreign policy

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Central America

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Baldwin was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to President Trump in 2019 encouraging him "to listen to members of your own Administration and reverse a decision that will damage our national security and aggravate conditions inside Central America", asserting that Trump had "consistently expressed a flawed understanding of U.S. foreign assistance" since becoming president and that he was "personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity" by preventing the use of Fiscal Year 2018 national security funding. The senators argued that foreign assistance to Central American countries created less migration to the U.S. by helping to improve conditions in those countries.[85]

Israel

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In 2020, Baldwin voiced her opposition to Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.[86] In March 2024, she urged the Biden administration to recognize a "nonmilitarized" Palestinian state after the end of the war in Gaza.[87] In April, she voted for a $14 billion dollar military aid package to Israel.[88] Baldwin attended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the U.S. Congress in July 2024 and was the only Democratic representative from Wisconsin in attendance.[89] Following the address, Baldwin said she was "deeply disappointed" in the remarks, which came in the middle of the conflict in Gaza. Baldwin wrote that while she was "resolute" in her support for "Israel's right to defend itself and the need to end Hamas's threat... the time has come for the innocent bloodshed and the war to end."[90] Baldwin supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict.[91]

Russia

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Baldwin was one of 11 senators to sign a letter in 2017 to United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressing their concern "about credible allegations that the Trump campaign, transition team, and Administration has colluded with the Russian government, including most recently the events leading to the resignation of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser." The senators requested the creation of "an independent Special Counsel to investigate collusion with the Russian government by General Flynn and other Trump campaign, transition and Administrative officials" in order to maintain "the confidence, credibility and impartiality of the Department of Justice".[92]

After United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in 2016 that the Trump administration was suspending its obligations in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 60 days in the event that Russia continued to violate the treaty, Baldwin was one of 26 senators to sign a letter expressing concern over the administration "now abandoning generations of bipartisan U.S. leadership around the paired goals of reducing the global role and number of nuclear weapons and ensuring strategic stability with America's nuclear-armed adversaries" and calling on Trump to continue arms negotiations.[93]

Opposition to Iraq War

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Baldwin was a vocal critic of the Iraq War.[12][94] She was among the 133 members of the House who voted in 2002 against authorizing the invasion of Iraq. She said there would be "postwar challenges", that "there is no history of democratic government in Iraq", that its "economy and infrastructure are in ruins after years of war and sanctions", and that rebuilding would take "a great deal of money".[95] In 2005, she joined the Out of Iraq Caucus.[96] In 2023, Baldwin voted with a bipartisan majority to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. She also supports repealing the 2001 AUMF for the War on Terror.[97]

Saudi Arabia

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Baldwin voted for a resolution by Rand Paul and Chris Murphy in 2017 that would block Trump's $510 million sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia that made up a portion of the $110 billion arms sale Trump announced during his visit to Saudi Arabia the previous year.[98][99]

Baldwin voted against tabling a resolution spearheaded by Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, and Mike Lee in 2018 that would have required Trump to withdraw American troops either in or influencing Yemen within the next 30 days unless they were combating Al-Qaeda.[100] In 2021, she voted for a resolution, opposed by a 67–30 majority, that would have blocked a $650 billion weapons sale to Saudi Arabia.[101]

Gun control

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Baldwin was one of 18 senators to sign a letter to Thad Cochran and Barbara Mikulski in 2016 requesting that the Labor, Health and Education subcommittee hold a hearing on whether to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study of gun violence and "the annual appropriations rider that some have interpreted as preventing it" with taxpayer dollars. The senators noted their support for taking steps "to fund gun-violence research, because only the United States government is in a position to establish an integrated public-health research agenda to understand the causes of gun violence and identify the most effective strategies for prevention."[102]

Baldwin was a cosponsor of the Military Domestic Violence Reporting Enhancement Act in 2017, a bill to create a charge of domestic violence under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and stipulate that convictions must be reported to federal databases to keep abusers from purchasing firearms within three days in an attempt to close a loophole in the UCMJ whereby convicted abusers retain the ability to purchase firearms.[103]

Baldwin was a cosponsor of the NICS Denial Notification Act in 2018,[104] legislation developed in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that would require federal authorities to inform states within a day after a person failing the National Instant Criminal Background Check System attempted to buy a firearm.[105]

In 2022, Baldwin voted for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a gun reform bill introduced following a deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The bill enhanced background checks for firearm purchasers under the age of 21, provided funding for school-based mental health services, and partially closed the gun show loophole and boyfriend loophole.[106][107][108]

Health care

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Baldwin pushes for continued access to reproductive care for veterans, 2023.

An outspoken advocate of single-payer, government-run universal health care since her days as a state legislator, Baldwin introduced the Health Security for All Americans Act, which would have required states to provide such a system, in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2005.[12][94][109][110][111] The bill died each time it was introduced without a House vote.[112]

Baldwin has said that she "believes strongly that a single-payer health system is the best way to comprehensively and fairly reform our health care system."[112] In 2009, she voted for the version of health-care reform that included a public option, a government-run health-care plan that would have competed with private insurers, but only the House passed that version. She ultimately voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which became law in 2010.[12][113] Baldwin is credited with writing the ACA provision that allows young Americans to stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26.[114] She said she hoped a public option in the ACA would lead to a single-payer system. The first version of the ACA Baldwin voted for included a public option, but the final version did not.[112]

In 2009, Baldwin introduced the Ending LGBT Health Disparities Act (ELHDA), which sought to advance LGBT health priorities by promoting research, cultural competency, and non-discrimination policies. The bill did not pass.[115]

Baldwin was one of five Democratic senators to sign a letter to President Trump in 2017 warning that failure "to take immediate action to oppose the lawsuit or direct House Republicans to forgo this effort will increase instability in the insurance market, as insurers may choose not to participate in the marketplace in 2018" and that they remained concerned that his administration "has still not provided certainty to insurers and consumers that you will protect the cost-sharing subsidies provided under the law."[116]

Also in 2017, Baldwin wrote an op-ed titled "Why I support Medicare for all and other efforts to expand health coverage."[117] In 2018 she was one of ten senators to sponsor the Choose Medicare Act, an expanded public option for health insurance that also increased Obamacare subsidies and rendered people with higher incomes eligible for its assistance.[118]

During the 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown, Baldwin was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb recognizing the FDA's efforts to address the shutdown's effect on public health and employees while remaining alarmed "that the continued shutdown will result in increasingly harmful effects on the agency's employees and the safety and security of the nation's food and medical products."[119]

In 2019, Baldwin was one of 11 senators to sign a letter to insulin manufactures Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi about their increased insulin prices depriving patients of "access to the life-saving medications they need".[120] She was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA), a bill intended to strengthen training for new and existing physicians, people who teach palliative care, and other providers on the palliative care team that grants patients and their families a voice in their care and treatment goals.[121] In 2022, Baldwin voted with Democrats to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which capped the cost of insulin for seniors on Medicare at $35 a month. The act also allowed Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices.[122]

Housing

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Baldwin visits community organization that rehabilitates houses with federal grants she secured for the state, 2023.

Baldwin was one of 41 senators to sign a bipartisan letter in 2019 to the housing subcommittee supporting the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 4 Capacity Building program as authorizing "HUD to partner with national nonprofit community development organizations to provide education, training, and financial support to local community development corporations (CDCs) across the country" and expressing disappointment that President Trump's budget "has slated this program for elimination after decades of successful economic and community development." The senators wrote of their hope that the subcommittee would support continued funding for Section 4 in Fiscal Year 2020.[123]

Immigration

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Baldwin voted against building a fence on the U.S.–Mexico border in 2006.[124] She voted in 2013 for S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.[125] She voted against Kate's Law in 2016.[126]

LGBT rights

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Baldwin at the White House to celebrate the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act, 2022.

Baldwin was the first openly lesbian member of the Wisconsin Assembly and one of a very few openly gay politicians in the country at the time of her election.

In 1993, she said she was disappointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton's support of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, calling it "a concession to bigotry".[127] In 1994, she proposed legalizing same-sex marriage in Wisconsin.[128] In 1995, she proposed domestic partnerships in Wisconsin.[129]

Baldwin was one of 69 members of the US House and Senate in 2014 to sign a letter to then-FDA commissioner Sylvia Burwell requesting that the FDA revise its policy banning donation of corneas and other tissues by men who have had sex with another man in the preceding five years.[130]

Baldwin was one of 20 senators to sign a letter in 2018 to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to reverse the rollback of a policy that granted visas to same-sex partners of LGBTQ diplomats who had unions that were not recognized by their home countries, writing that too many places around the world have seen LGBTQ people "subjected to discrimination and unspeakable violence, and receive little or no protection from the law or local authorities" and that refusing to let LGBTQ diplomats bring their partners to the U.S. would be equivalent of upholding "the discriminatory policies of many countries around the world."[131]

Baldwin was one of 18 senators to sign a letter in 2019 to Pompeo requesting an explanation of a State Department decision not to issue an official statement that year commemorating Pride Month or to issue the annual cable outlining activities for embassies commemorating Pride Month. They also asked why the LGBTI special envoy position remained vacant and asserted that "preventing the official flying of rainbow flags and limiting public messages celebrating Pride Month signals to the international community that the United States is abandoning the advancement of LGBTI rights as a foreign policy priority."[132]

In 2022, Baldwin helped pass the Respect for Marriage Act to protect the rights of same-sex and interracial marriage in federal law.[133]

Terrorism

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Baldwin speaking at a U.S. Department of Justice event

Baldwin introduced a bill in 2013 that would "bring greater government transparency, oversight and due process whenever authorities use information gathered for intelligence purposes to make domestic non-terrorism cases against Americans."[134]

She called the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, in 2016 a "hate crime"[135] and said, "The question now for America is are we going to come together and stand united against hate, gun violence and terrorism?"[136]

Baldwin was one of 22 members of Congress to vote against a 2006 9/11 memorial bill; she said she "voted against the bill because Republicans had inserted provisions praising the Patriot Act and hard-line immigration measures".[137][138] She voted nine times in favor of other similar bills.[139]

Her vote received renewed attention in Wisconsin's 2012 U.S. Senate race, when Tommy Thompson's campaign released an ad about it that PolitiFact rated "Mostly False".[139] Thompson said, "Wisconsin voters need to know that Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin put her extreme views above honoring the men and women who were murdered by the terrorists in the Sept. 11 attacks on our nation."[137] PolitiFact wrote, "Thompson said his Democratic challenger voted against a resolution honoring 9/11 victims. Technically, he's correct. Baldwin voted against the measure in 2006—and criticized Republicans for adding in references to the Patriot Act, immigration bills, and other controversial matters. But Baldwin has voted nine times in favor of similar resolutions, and the day before the vote in question supported creation of a memorial at the World Trade Center site. Thompson's statement contains an element of truth, but leaves out critical information that would give a different impression. That's our definition of Mostly False."[139]

U.S. Postal Service

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Baldwin was a cosponsor of a bipartisan resolution led by Gary Peters and Jerry Moran in 2019 that opposed privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS), citing the USPS as a self-sustained establishment and noting concerns that privatization could cause higher prices and reduced services for its customers, especially in rural communities.[140]

Veterans

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In August 2013, Baldwin was one of 23 Democratic senators to sign a letter to the Defense Department warning that some payday lenders were "offering predatory loan products to service members at exorbitant triple digit effective interest rates and loan products that do not include the additional protections envisioned by the law" and asserting that service members and their families "deserve the strongest possible protections and swift action to ensure that all forms of credit offered to members of our armed forces are safe and sound."[141]

In January 2015, USA Today obtained a copy of a report by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general about the Tomah, Wisconsin Veterans Affairs medical facility. The report said that two physicians at the Tomah VA were among the biggest prescribers of opioids in a multi-state region, raising "potentially serious concerns". Baldwin's office had received the report in August 2014 but did not take action until January 2015, when Baldwin called for an investigation after the Center for Investigative Reporting published details of the report, including information about a veteran who died from an overdose at the facility. A whistleblower and former Tomah VA employee learned that Baldwin's office had a copy of the report, and repeatedly emailed Baldwin's office asking that she take action on the issue. Baldwin's office did not explain why they waited from August 2014 to January 2015 to call for an investigation. Baldwin was the only member of Congress who had a copy of the report.[142][143]

In February 2015, Baldwin fired her deputy state director over her handling of the VA report. The aide was offered but declined a severance deal that included a cash payout and a confidentiality agreement that would have required her to keep quiet. The aide filed an ethics complaint with the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The complaint was dismissed as lacking merit.[144] Baldwin said, "we should have done a better job listening to and communicating with another constituent with whom we were working on problems at the VA",[143] and that she had started a review of why her office had failed to act on the report. As a result of the review, Baldwin fined her chief of staff, demoted her state director, and reassigned a veterans' outreach staffer.[145] In 2016, Baldwin introduced a bill named after the affected veteran, Jason Simcakoski, to strengthen opioid prescribing practices and guidelines at the VA.[146] In November 2017, Baldwin co-sponsored legislation designed to strengthen opioid safety in the Department of Veterans Affairs.[146]

In 2021, Baldwin co-sponsored a bill to expand VA health benefits for veterans who were exposed to burn pits at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan, also known as K2 Air Base.[147] In 2022, she voted for the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act, which expanded VA health benefits to 3.5 million veterans who were exposed to burn pits and toxic substances on U.S. bases overseas.[148]

Personal life

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Baldwin is the granddaughter of biochemist David E. Green and the niece of another biochemist, Rowena Green Matthews.[149] She is also a third cousin of comedian and actor Andy Samberg.[150]

Baldwin was with Lauren Azar for 15 years; the couple registered as domestic partners in Wisconsin in 2009.[151] They separated in 2010.[152] Baldwin was baptized Episcopalian but considers herself "unaffiliated" with a religion.[153][154]

Baldwin owns a home in Madison. She also co-owns an apartment in Washington D.C. with her partner, Maria Brisbane.[155]

Awards and honors

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In 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, Queerty named Baldwin one of 50 heroes "leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people".[156][157]

Electoral history

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U.S. House

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Year Election Date Elected Defeated Total Plurality
1998[158] Primary Sep. 8 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 24,227 37.09% Richard J. Phelps Dem. 22,610 34.62% 65,317 1,617
Joe Wineke Dem. 17,444 26.71%
Patrick J. O'Brien Dem. 1,036 1.59%
General Nov. 3 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 116,377 52.87% Josephine Musser Rep. 103,528 47.03% 220,115 12,849
Marc Gumz (write-in) Rep. 107 0.05%
John Stumpf (write-in) Tax. 103 0.05%
2000[159] General Nov. 7 Tammy Baldwin (inc) Democratic 163,534 51.36% John Sharpless Rep. 154,632 48.57% 318,380 8,902
2002[160] General Nov. 5 Tammy Baldwin (inc) Democratic 163,313 66.01% Ron Greer Rep. 83,694 33.83% 247,410 79,619
2004[161] General Nov. 2 Tammy Baldwin (inc) Democratic 251,637 63.27% Dave Magnum Rep. 145,810 36.66% 397,724 105,827
2006[162] General Nov. 7 Tammy Baldwin (inc) Democratic 191,414 62.82% Dave Magnum Rep. 113,015 37.09% 304,688 78,399
2008[163] General Nov. 4 Tammy Baldwin (inc) Democratic 277,914 69.33% Peter Theron Rep. 122,513 30.56% 400,841 155,401
2010[164] General Nov. 2 Tammy Baldwin (inc) Democratic 191,164 61.77% Chad Lee Rep. 118,099 38.16% 309,460 73,065

U.S. Senate

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2012 United States Senate election, Wisconsin[165]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tammy Baldwin 1,547,104 51.41% −15.9
Republican Tommy Thompson 1,380,126 45.86% +16.4
Libertarian Joseph Kexel 62,240 2.07% +2.1
Independent Nimrod Allen, III 16,455 0.55% N/A
Other Scattered 3,486 0.12% +0.1
Majority 166,978 5.55%
Turnout 3,009,411
Democratic hold Swing
2018 United States Senate election, Wisconsin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tammy Baldwin 1,472,914 55.4% +3.99
Republican Leah Vukmir 1,184,885 44.6% −1.26
Majority 288,029 10.8% +5.25
Turnout 2,657,799 100%
Democratic hold Swing

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Preceded by Member of the Wisconsin Assembly
from the 78th district
1993–1999 		Succeeded by
U.S. House of Representatives
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from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district
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