Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu
Wisconsin’s Senate majority leader calls yesterday’s Senate session the last best way to address critical issues Governor Tony Evers has vetoed.
9th District St. Senator Devin LeMahieu, who represents a part of Manitowoc County in Madison, released a statement after the legislature voted to allocate $140 million to address the emergency healthcare shortage in the Chippewa Valley and PFAS contamination statewide.
The Oostburg Republican says the legislature passed hundreds of bills to solve problems facing Wisconsin businesses and families with most being signed into law.
However, many were vetoed by Evers, who is more focused on politics than policies that help everyday Wisconsinites.
LeMahieu states Evers vetoed bills that would have addressed the healthcare problem in Western Wisconsin and PFAS contamination.
For months the legislature has taken steps to get crucial funds into communities that need them.
Evers announced yesterday he’s suing Republicans again for what he says is a lack of action from the state’s Joint Finance Committee run by Republicans.
He also says stand alone bills Republicans want to pass for PFAS reduction would have given a benefit to polluters, so they didn’t have to clean up their own messes.
The governor also didn’t like restrictions on a $15 million crisis response to the hospital closures because a bill passed by Republicans limited funds for hospital emergency department services only, not for entire systems.
Nine overrides total were approved by the Senate, but a full override of Evers’s partial vetoes doesn’t seem likely in the Assembly, since they don’t have a two-thirds majority.
