{"id":6071,"date":"2013-11-25T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2013-11-25T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:31:18","slug":"reminder-congressman-mark-pocan-on-campus-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6071","title":{"rendered":"Reminder! Congressman Mark Pocan on Campus Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6030\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mark-pocan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6030\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6030\" alt=\"Congressman Mark Pocan\" src=\"http:\/\/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><p id=\"caption-attachment-6030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Mark Pocan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Join Congressman Mark Pocan in a conversation about current events in Washington, the effects of Sequestration, and the changing landscape of public higher education at\u00a0<strong>11:30 am, Tuesday, November 26<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPROFS is excited to welcome Congressman Pocan to UW-Madison. The university receives more than 30 percent of its budget from federal funding, and faculty are concerned about the future consequences of the federal sequestration,&#8221; said agronomy professor Bill Tracy, President of PROFS.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held in the Wisconsin Idea Room on the first floor of the\u00a0<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>Congressman Pocan was elected to represent Wisconsin\u2019s Second Congressional District in 2012 after serving 14 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. He currently serves on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.budget.house.gov\/\">House Budget Committee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/blogs\/news\/229859371.html\">was recently named<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov\/\">House Education and Workforce Committee<\/a>. Pocan graduated from UW-Madison with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Congressman Mark Pocan in a conversation about current events in Washington, the effects of Sequestration, and the changing landscape of public higher education at\u00a011:30 am, Tuesday, November 26. \u201cPROFS is excited to welcome Congressman Pocan to UW-Madison. The university&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6071\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[65,32,92],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-national-context","category-uw","tag-congress","tag-federal","tag-mark-pocan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","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=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}