Law allows lawmakers to secretly block items they don't like.
State should prohibit any rule, motion, bill or amendment from being introduced without a clearly identified sponsor and cosponsors.
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State should prohibit any rule, motion, bill or amendment from being introduced without a clearly identified sponsor and cosponsors.
" ... these anonymous vetoes have been around for years, used by both Republican and Democratic lawmakers. That doesn’t make it right," writes Dee J. Hall.
Recently, Wisconsin Watch revealed how members of the Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful budget committee secretly hold up projects or programs they don’t like.
Legislators are able to secretly delay projects they don't like. Transparency is needed.
The Joint Finance Committee has long allowed members to anonymously block projects, but some want to rein in its dubious practice of not holding hearings