{"id":6046,"date":"2013-11-13T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preview.profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2013-11-13T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:00:15","slug":"profs-to-host-conversatin-with-congressman-mark-pocan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6046","title":{"rendered":"PROFS to Host Conversation with Congressman Mark Pocan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/preview.profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mark-pocan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6030\" title=\"Congressman Mark Pocan\" alt=\"mark pocan\" src=\"http:\/\/preview.profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mark-pocan-139x150.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mark-pocan-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mark-pocan-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mark-pocan.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/a>PROFS will host a brown bag conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/pocan.house.gov\/about\/full-biography\">Congressman Mark Pocan<\/a> (D-Madison) at <strong>11:30 am on Tuesday, November 26<\/strong>. The event will be held in the Wisconsin Idea Room on the first floor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/map.wisc.edu\/s\/ud4kh7d\">Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall<\/a>. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman will offer a legislative update, but will spend most of his time answering questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Pocan was elected to represent Wisconsin&#8217;s Second Congressional District in 2012 after serving 14 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He currently serves on the <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.budget.house.gov\/\">House Budget Committee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/blogs\/news\/229859371.html\">was recently named<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov\/\">House Education and Workforce Committee<\/a>. Pocan graduated from UW-Madison with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in journalism in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROFS will host a brown bag conversation with Congressman Mark Pocan (D-Madison) at 11:30 am on Tuesday, November 26. The event will be held in the Wisconsin Idea Room on the first floor of the Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6046\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[65,32,92],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profs","category-the-national-context","tag-congress","tag-federal","tag-mark-pocan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}