Officials

     After a poor winter, terrible spring, and ever-increasing oil prices, Iron County, through some hard working elected officials, was fortunate enough to get the attention of Wisconsin’s Governor Jim Doyle.

     Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI) is spending the next two days with the Border Patrol to review security issues as they relate to the northern border.

While the national press has been focused on presidential politics, the 110th Congress has been quietly producing some significant legislation.

     With a bipartisan majority, the House of Representatives today approved a package, put together by Seventh District Congressman Dave Obey’s (D-WI) Appropriations Committee, which increases VA mileage compensation by nearly fifty percent to help veterans who have to drive long distances to receive medical care. Last year, the Congress approved the first VA mileage compensation increase since 1979, and with today’s increase, has nearly quadrupled the compensation rate over the last two years.