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Voter ID ballot measure is another Republican power grab

Madison 23 Mar 2025
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, are dead set against ballot measures on issues such as abortion or gun control, or a host of other ...
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Assembly Speaker should listen to people on marijuana, citizen-initiated bills | Letters

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 21 Mar 2025
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is quoted in the March 14 paper saying GOAT will “make things that we already have work better.” ... Personally, I think it would be most beneficial for the efficiency of Wisconsin if Vos were to resign from politics.
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Court rulings on Evers' veto power could delay state budget, Vos says

Stevens Point Journal 21 Mar 2025
Tony Evers' veto authority, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Thursday. Vos, the most powerful Republican in the state Capitol, told reporters ... "We have a governor who wants to be an emperor," Vos said.
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State superintendent Jill Underly is fierce defender of public schools amid Trump cuts

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 21 Mar 2025
MADISON — The question came halfway through a panel where high school students peppered State Superintendent Jill Underly on a range of education topics ... Show up every day ... She said she has never met with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester ...
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Work on state budget will wait for court rulings on Evers' veto power, Vos says

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 20 Mar 2025
Tony Evers' veto authority, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Thursday ... "We have a governor who wants to be an emperor," Vos said ... A spokeswoman for Evers did not immediately react to Vos' comments.
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State of the Tribes address touches on Trump, Line 5, education, cannabis, treaty rights

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 20 Mar 2025
“We are all better when working together.” ... Mark Webster, an Oneida tribal member and community advocate living in Milwaukee whose children died by suicide, blamed Assembly Speaker Robin Vos for setting up the agenda to delay the State of the Tribes.
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As legislators honor Jonathan Brostoff, some share the belief: 'We are not doing enough.'

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 19 Mar 2025
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, told the Journal Sentinel in January that "taking firearms away from people who have not been convicted of a crime would be a non-starter," even in the wake of Brostoff's death.
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Gov. Tony Evers' budget proposes $120 jump in vehicle title fees to pay for roads, bridges

Wausau Daily Herald 19 Mar 2025
MADISON - Gov ... It does not have to be paid again ... Sen ... Rep ... Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has already said that Evers' proposals in the budget are dead on arrival, and will be axed during the legislature's budget process.
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Assembly passes bill compelling sheriffs to detain undocumented immigrants who commit crimes

FDL Reporter 18 Mar 2025
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the bill simply requires local law enforcement to enter the name of a detained person into another database and check to see if they're listed by ICE ... Vos hit back on ...
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What is GOAT? Here's what you should know about Wisconsin's DOGE-inspired efficiency committee

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 17 Mar 2025
But that GOAT isn't what Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had in mind when he created the committee at the beginning of the session ... When Vos announced GOAT, he said it was created to "try and find ways to ...
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Republican lawmakers in Madison don't care about will of people. Post per diems. | Letters

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 16 Mar 2025
... Talking about transparency, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos must think the people have forgotten his attempt to drop an iron curtain on information coming from Madison over a July Fourth holiday in 2015.
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Here's what to know about the voter ID referendum in Wisconsin's April election

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 13 Mar 2025
How to register to vote in Wisconsin (you'll need a have a photo ID) ... Republicans, including Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, favor enshrining the law in the constitution to protect it from being overturned by the state Supreme Court ... Rep ... No.
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Leprechauns Vos and Evers fight over people's pot o' gold

Madison 12 Mar 2025
Tony Evers and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, have big plans for Wisconsin's estimated ...
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In Wisconsin, DOGE is spelled G-O-A-T

Madison 12 Mar 2025
Others that have created similar groups include Florida, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana and New Hampshire ... The Wisconsin committee was created by Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, but three of its nine members are Democrats.
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Wisconsin's version of DOGE, dubbed GOAT, takes on telework, sets stage for talks on DEI

Stevens Point Journal 12 Mar 2025
Hundreds protest mass firing of NOAA employees from DOGE cuts ... Assembly Speaker Robin Vos created the GOAT committee this year to streamline state government and explore ways to improve services for Wisconsinites in more cost-effective ways ... On Feb.
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