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Senate Leaders Indicate More COVID-19 Legislation May Be Needed
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | April 16, 2020
From WisPolitics.com . . .
The Senate’s top leaders praised the COVID-19 bill as it unanimously cleared the chamber, but indicated more may be needed.
“This bill is imperfect, and it might be the first bill of a number that we are going to have to pass in the Legislature,” said Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau.
Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, meanwhile, said she hopes the package was “not a one-and-done.”
“I hope that this Legislature realizes that our work is not done,” the La Crosse Dem said. “Today is not the end; this is just the beginning.”
After yesterday’s session, President Roger Roth, R-Appleton, directed Legislative Technology Services Bureau staff to leave the infrastructure for Senate-wide video conferencing in place in the Capitol room where the meeting was conducted in case the Senate needs to meet again virtually.
As the Assembly signed off on the bill 97-2 earlier in the week, Speaker Robin Vos, R-Vos, said he expected the chamber to return at some point to “deal with the economic carnage” after not cutting state spending in the package.
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