{"id":4476,"date":"2013-01-07T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2013-01-07T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T03:12:24","slug":"2013-14-legislative-session-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4476","title":{"rendered":"2013-14 Legislative Session Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winter-capitol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1129\" title=\"winter capitol\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winter-capitol-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"winter capitol\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winter-capitol-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winter-capitol-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/winter-capitol.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The 2013-14 legislative session began today when legislators were sworn in at 2 pm. Republicans regained control of the Senate (18-15) and enjoy the same majority in the Assembly as they did last session (60-39). A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewheelerreport.com\/Subscriber\/01021314calendar.pdf\">tentative floorperiod schedule<\/a> was released last week, and the official calendar was adopted by joint resolution today. The Assembly is also scheduled to be in session Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Committee assignments were announced last month &#8212; a list of Assembly committees is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewheelerreport.com\/JFC\/1221asmcommittees.pdf\">here<\/a> and the Senate list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewheelerreport.com\/JFC\/1219sencommittees.pdf\">here<\/a>. A full list of legislative leadership is <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4140\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater) will continue to chair the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities and Representative Dave Murphy (R-Greenville) will serve as vice-chair. Republicans Joel Kleefisch, Oconomowoc; Dean Knudson, Hudson;\u00a0 Scott Krug, Nekoosa; Duey Stroebel, Saukville; and Tom Weatherston, Caledonia will serve on the committee along with\u00a0 Democrats Janet Bewley, Ashland;\u00a0 Jill Billings, La Crosse; Dianne Hesselbein, Middleton; and Dana Wachs, Eau Claire.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls) will chair the Senate Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges. Republicans Dale Schultz of Richland Center and Rick Gudex of Oshkosh will serve on the committee with Democrats Jennifer Schilling of La Crosse and Jon Erpenbach of Middleton.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/\"><em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/a> recently interviewed Republican leadership in the Assembly to discuss their legislative priorities. Video of that interview is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/multimedia\/video\/?bcpid=13960334001&amp;bcplid=1842745343&amp;bctid=2071105955001\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013-14 legislative session began today when legislators were sworn in at 2 pm. Republicans regained control of the Senate (18-15) and enjoy the same majority in the Assembly as they did last session (60-39). A tentative floorperiod schedule was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4476\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}