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The Wisconsin Senate is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Together with the Wisconsin State Assembly they constitute the legislative branch of the state of Wisconsin. The powers of the Wisconsin Senate are modeled after those of the U.S. Senate . The Wisconsin Constitution ties the size of the State Senate to that of the ...
The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin . Representatives are elected for two-year terms, elected during the fall elections. If a vacancy occurs in an Assembly seat between elections, it may ...
Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde has pledged to donate his salary to charity if he is elected. Hovde, a Madison-area businessman, announced in February that he would challenge Sen. Tammy ...
The Legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house, Wisconsin State Senate, and the lower Wisconsin State Assembly, both of which have had Republican majorities since January 2011. With both houses combined, the legislature has 132 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. The Legislature convenes at the state ...
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 78th district, and from 1999 to 2013 represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of ...
The 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also known as the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, [1] is legislation proposed by Republican Governor Scott Walker [2] and passed by the Wisconsin Legislature to address a projected $3.6 billion budget deficit. [3] The legislation primarily affects the following areas: collective bargaining, compensation, retirement ...
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Monday signed into law new maps that will shift the balance of power in a state Legislature that has been dominated by Republicans for more than a decade ...
Milwaukee. v. t. e. The 2020 Wisconsin Senate elections were held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, at the Fall general election in Wisconsin. Sixteen of the 33 seats in the Wisconsin Senate were up for election—the even-numbered districts. Before the election, Republicans held 18 seats, Democrats held 13 seats, and 2 seats were vacant.