The percentage of Wisconsin Democratic-authored bills that received a public hearing has declined to 1.9% in the 2021-22 legislative session. In the 2011-12 session, about 15% of Democratic-authored bills received a hearing.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring ballot drop boxes illegal"includes the 2020 Presidential Election."If the gap seems especially imbalanced, that’s because it’s a far cry from just over a decade ago.
Control of the Assembly flipped in 2010, and with the election of Gov. Scott Walker, the GOP had full control of state government — so there was little functional need for bipartisanship to move matters forward. In the years that followed, the percentage of bills authored by Democrats that received public hearings cratered.
To give a sense of scale on the number of bills handled by the Legislature, the volume of bills introduced in a given session, by both chambers, from 2009 to 2020 ranged from 1,325 to 1,970, according to the most recentHong claimed that in the current legislative session"more than 75% of GOP bills received a public hearing. Meanwhile, the GOP allowed less than 2% of Democratic bills to have a hearing.
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