From Wisconsin Dept. of Administration (tip to Wheeler Report): Thursday, March 10, 2011 Capitol opening delayed Thursday Capitol opening delayed Thursday The Wisconsin State Capitol did not open at 8 a.m. Thursday morning due to events the previous night when thousands of people entered the building after the Capitol was to have been closed for […]
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Wis. Senate Clerk: Only Notice Required for Committee Meeting Was Posting on Bulletin Board
Questions have been raised whether the 2-hour notice given of the Wisconsin Senate committee meeting was adequate. Rob Marchant, the Clerk of the Senate issued this statement (tip to Wheeler Report): There was some discussion today about the notice provided for the legislature’s conference committee. In special session, under Senate Rule 93, no advance notice […]
Wisconsin Substitute Bill is Only 6 Pages Shorter
The 138-page substitute for Wisconsin Senate Bill 11 is only 6 pages shorter than the 144-page original Bill 11. The senators seem to have left in everything that was not clearly fiscal. They even left in several sections near the end that (unwisely, IMO) still have “Fiscal” headings, though they contain no taxes or increases […]
Wisconsin Senate Splits and Passes Most of the Budget Bill
The Wisconsin Senate has passed a budget bill with the “non-fiscal” provisions stripped out, just as I proposed last week in a manuscript on SSRN, a post at Volokh (“Wisconsin Senate Does Not Need a 3/5ths Quorum to Pass Much of the Budget Bill”), and an op-ed at National Review Online. Those curious about the […]