{"id":9138,"date":"2024-02-21T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T17:09:36","slug":"wisconsin-assembly-eyes-limits-on-governors-veto-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9138","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Assembly Eyes Limits on Governor\u2019s Veto Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/governors-veto-powers\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/governors-veto-powers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wisconsin-150x150-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Governor\u2019s Veto Powers Wisconsin Republicans Parental Bill of Rights Outlaw Child Sex Dolls Embrace Them Both Unemployment Reforms Wisconsin\u2019s Professional Licensing Bail Reform Amendment wisconsin covid-19\" title=\"Tyler August\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly are taking the first step to reign in some of the governor\u2019s veto power.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers on Tuesday took up Assembly Joint Resolution 112, which would change the Wisconsin Constitution to stop the governor from raising a tax or a fee on his own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWisconsin&#8217;s unique partial veto is considered one of the most powerful policy tools in the country,\u201d Rep. Amanda Nedweski, R-Pleasant Prairie, told reporters. \u201cFrom Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson&#8217;s infamous Vanna White veto, to Democrat Gov. Tony Evers 402-year tax increase, we have seen abuse of the partial veto addressed with proposed constitutional amendments by legislatures nearly 30 times in the last century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nedweski said this proposed constitutional amendment would apply to Evers specifically, but would apply to all future governor\u2019s as well by banning the governor from single handedly increasing taxes or creating fees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe will of the people is the law of the land, not the will of the governor,\u201d Nedweski added. \u201cThis would appropriately rebalance power between the executive and the legislature, and further restrict the executive from completely rewriting the law. The governor is not a legislator, and the partial veto was not intended to give the governor legislative power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s vote was the first vote for the plan. It would need to pass the legislature again next year before it would go to the voters, likely next spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe very narrowly crafted this legislation to address the specific situations that we believe members of the public would find the most egregious, the ability for a single person to increase taxes or fees on the people of Wisconsin with the single stroke of a pen,\u201d Nedweski said. \u201cThe people should not be subjected to political trickery that does not reflect their will as represented by their legislators.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/governors-veto-powers\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}