Happy New Year! Here we are with a brand-new year starting — just a few days old. And what a year it will be here in Wisconsin and across the country, if for no other reason than that this is yet another presidential election year. Once again, Wisconsin, because we are so very purple, is one of a handful of targeted states for this election cycle. Both parties will be very visible in our state, working hard for those ten electoral votes we offer the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote here.
While the presidential election swirls, we are also in these early months of this new year finishing up a legislative session. From now to whenever the Senate and the Assembly wrap up their floor sessions — we’ve heard anywhere from late February to late March — legislation will be coming fast and furious, which means quickly-held public hearings for fast-tracked bills, followed by some very busy days on the floor of both the senate and the assembly.
As last year wound down, we got a glimpse of a bill that Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos thinks would be a good one to join this end-of-session fray. Vos indicated in a media interview that he would like to have introduced and passed a bill that would ban abortion in our state at and beyond fifteen weeks. Vos wants to structure the proposal so that if the governor signs it, it would then h ...
