The Wisconsin Senate held its last session of 2024 on Tuesday with no plans to return this calendar year.
The upper chamber adjourned and will not meet again until January 2025, despite pocketing a full-time salary for only a few months of work. Salaries for all Wisconsin state legislators are $57,408.
“By adjourning early for the 2023-24 legislative session — nearly a full month before their own calendar prescribed — Senate Republicans sent a message to our Wisconsin neighbors that they believe our job is done,” Minority Caucus Chairman Chris Larson said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
The Senate does have meetings set through May, but Republican leaders do not plan on meeting moving forward according to an Associated Press reporter.
“The Senate has four potential floor days in April and a veto-review period
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