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State Assembly Representative Garey Bies

Bies has stated that he’s close to introducing a bill that would require police departments to do more investigation in officer-related deaths and shootings. Police departments can currently do their own investigations on incidents when an officer is involved in a shooting, and this bill would require at least two other agencies to be part of the investigation.

Bies said the public tends not to trust departments doing an investigation on their own officers.

Source:  The Associated Press

 

State Senator Frank Lasee

Lasee, along with Bies and Rep. Chad Weininger of Green Bay, has co-authored a bill that would make businesses that move to any Wisconsin community eligible for state tax credits designed to respond to mass layoffs. Currently only Beloit, Janesville and Kenosha are eligible.

“Obviously this is going to benefit Kewaunee,” said Kevin Jenkins, Lasee’s chief of staff. “We felt that it shouldn’t be winners and losers. If it’s a good program it should be able to be accessed by everyone.”

The Kewaunee Power Station nuclear plant is scheduled to close this year.

In order to be eligible for the funds, a company in the community would have to lay off 25 percent of its work force or more than 100 workers.

Source:  ABC News, Lasee’s office

 

Representative Reid Ribble

The New York Times reported that experts have little hope of avoiding a government shutdown in October caused by failing to increase the federal debt limit. Ribble was among the bipartisan group of legislators interviewed who said they want to avoid a shutdown.

“It ends badly for the American people and the Republican Party if we shut down the government,” Ribble said. “I hope grown-ups get in a room and behave like grown-ups, not simply actors on a political stage.”

Source: The New York Times

 

Senator Ron Johnson

Johnson has responded to the League of Conservation Voters TV commercial that calls out Johnson’s record of climate change denial.

“The League of Conservation Voters is one of the many attack dog groups used by President Obama, the Democrats and the extreme left to weaken, defeat and silence conservatives,” Johnson wrote in a fundraising email. “They use TV ads – filled with smears – because they work.”

The video is available on Youtube, under the title “Senator Ron Johnson ‘Action’ Ad.”

Source: The Huffington Post

 

Senator Tammy Baldwin

Baldwin, along with 19 other U.S. senators, is working to block changes to how Medicare classifies and pays critical access hospitals. Those hospitals service rural areas with limited care available and are reimbursed at a higher rate for Medicare services. Baldwin said the change would cause 53 of the 58 Wisconsin hospitals to lose their critical access status.

Source: The Superior Telegram, The Cap Times