The state Assembly is taking up a resolution to honor Rush Limbaugh, which the Senate passed on Tuesday.
"Our single most important job as elected officials is to help our constituents feel safe," @StateRepHong says in opposition to the resolution.
@StateRepHong .@RepMyers points out Assembly did not take up a Black History Month resolution this year after white Republican lawmakers for the fourth year objected to who the Black caucus wanted to honor.
"I just want you to sit with that for a moment to understand how this looks."
@StateRepHong@RepMyers Myers asks GOP colleagues if they would be OK if he called their daughters sluts, which Limbaugh said about a woman testifying in favor of a requirement that health insurers cover contraception.
"When is enough enough and what the hell is the bar?"
"I get you don't like everything he said. I can't agree with everything he ever said .. there are a whole lot of people out there who have a high amount of respect for Mr Limbaugh
Sortwell said he drafted it to focus on contrib to radio industry
.@StateSenLaTonya is seeking to introduce a resolution on the Senate floor to recognize Black History Month, which the Legislature did not do in February after white Republican lawmakers for the fourth year objected to honorees included in proposal from Black lawmakers.
@StateSenLaTonya Senate Republicans vote against suspending rules to allow the Black History Month resolution drafted by the Black legislative caucus, which isn't on the calendar, to be taken up.
@StateSenLaTonya asks that the resolution be read into the record.
Senate is taking up a bill that requires DPI to include Holocaust and other genocides into academic standards
@SenTaylor says the Senate should also recognize Black history, which includes mass deaths through the slave trade
"Can we teach the Holocaust of my people?" she said.
@SenTaylor .@SenTaylor says the failure to teach Black history resulted in @BachelorABC finalist Rachael Kirkconnell not understanding why attending an antebellum-themed party would be offensive to @mattjames919.
Senate Republicans oppose amendment from Taylor to include slave trade. Bill author @SenDarling says amending the bill at this point could derail it, and that such history should be included under the bill's language related to other genocides.
The percent of Milwaukee high school students failing one or more classes this fall reached 30%, an increase of nearly 12 percentage points from the previous year. jsonline.com/story/news/edu… via @BySamanthaWest
@BySamanthaWest In one Wisconsin school district, two in five high school students failed a class during first semester. In another, the fall failure rate was four times what it had been in recent years.
@BySamanthaWest Almost all of the 60 school districts responding to a USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin survey reported that more high school students failed a class last fall than in recent years, and most blamed the same factor: online learning.
The state Senate will meet at 11 a.m. today to take up the COVID-19 relief bill again.
It's expected to pass and will go to @GovEvers' desk. Evers has signaled he doesn't support it. The bill was amended by the Assembly after Evers and Senate Republicans struck a deal.
@GovEvers Legislative Democrats in a presser this morning say they are introducing a bill to mandate masks statewide. The announcement comes ahead of the Senate's extraordinary legislative session.
@GovEvers By the way, an "extraordinary session" is the name of a floor session called by the legislative leaders outside of the normal calendar. (That is not me editorializing.)
And now, Republican Sen. Steve Nass says he is drafting a new resolution to end the new emergency order that mandates masks.
"I will also be calling on senate leadership to consider filing for an emergency action in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
"The rule of law and the Wisconsin Constitution require Evers to recognize the legislature ended his emergency powers. Instead, Tony Evers now acts no differently than a dictator in control of a banana republic," Nass says.
Senate Majority Leader @SenatorDevin indicates the Legislature won't act to end the new emergency order that mandates masks, asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to side with Legislature.
Assembly Republicans sent @GovEvers a letter asking him to propose mask requirements through the Legislature's rules committee on the same day they will vote on a resolution that repeals the mask mandate in place.
The rules committee is chaired by the author of the mask repeal.
@GovEvers Democrats sought to amend a bill up today aimed at responding to the pandemic with a measure that mandates face masks.
Speaker Pro Tem says the amendment is not germane.
@GovEvers .@SpeakerVos starts floor debate by saying he is not there to talk about masks, but about @GovEvers' unilateral order.