As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

Kind is the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip and co-founder of both the Upper Mississippi River Congressional Caucus and the Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus and co-vice-chair of the New Democrat Coalition. Early life education and career
Kind was born and raised in La Crosse. There was also a push to draft Kind to run for governor in 2012 against Scott Walker.

S. Representative for Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district.