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Jeff Smith: “They quit having in-person executive meetings in committee.”

Featuring: Jeff Smith, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 31

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Jeff Smith Show: 12-30-25

Published | Video Starts at 10:18

And you want those good ideas to shine, obviously, even in the Wisconsin legislature. This started about six years ago after my. I was about one year into my Senate reign here. They quit having in-person executive meetings in committee. That means we did not have debate at all on bills. Instead, what the committee chairs in the Senate side would do would send us paper ballots to our office and just give us the lines. (10:18–10:24)

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Asserts that in-person executive meetings in committee were stopped in the Wisconsin legislature.

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