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  6. The committee is also statutorily empowered to inquire into the operations
of any state
       agency to determine better methods, systems or procedures for improving
state govern-
       ment operations.
  7. The committee is also responsible for receiving a variety of statutorily
required reports.
      The reports are enumerated in Section 13.09 (4) of the statutes.







                            LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Members 1985-1987: REPRESENTATIVE LoFrus (speaker of the Assembly, elected
chairperson 9/
  26/85), chairperson; SENATOR RISSER (president of the Senate, elected vice
chairperson 9/26/
  85), vice chairperson; REPRESENTATIVE TOMMY G. THOMPSON (minority leader
from 12/81,
  elected secretary 3/85, resigned 12/4/86), secretary; REPRESENTATIVE BETTY
Jo NELSEN (minor-
  ity leader from 1/87, elected secretary 1/23/87), secretary; SENATORS STROHL
(replaced Senator
  Cullen as majority leader on 12/18/86); GEORGE (cochairperson, Jt. Finance,
resumed position
  on council 7/20/85); DAVIS (ranking minority member, Jt. Finance, from
1/87); CzARNEZKI
  (replaced Senator Norquist as at-large member on 4/28/87); LEE (became
at-large member on
  7/20/85); MOEN (replaced Senator Strohl as at-large member on 1/13/87);
ENGELEITER (minor-
  ity leader from 1/85); HARSDORF (reappointed 1/28/86); KREUL (replaced
former Senator Mc-
  Callum as at-large member on 1/12/87); REPRESENTATIVES HAUKE (replaced
Representative
  Becker as majority leader on 1/5/87); CLARENBACH (speaker pro tem from
1/83); SCHNEIDER
  (cochairperson, Jt. Finance from 1/7/85); PROSSER (replaced Representative
Nelsen as ranking
  minority member, Jt. Finance, on 1/5/87); BELL (reappointed 5/28/85); M.
COGGS (reap-
  pointed 5/28/85); TESMER (reappointed 5/28/85); BRADLEY (reappointed 6/10/85);
McEssv
  (reappointed 6/10/85).
Executive Secretary: BONNIE REESE.
Chief Staff Attorney: DAVID J. STUTE.
Legislative Council Rules Clearinghouse: RONALD SKLANSKY, director; RICHARD
SWEET, assistant
  director.
Mailing Address: Room 147 North, State Capitol, Madison 53702.
Telephone: (608) 266-1304.
Publications: General Report of the Legislative Council to the 1987 Legislature;
Digest of Coun-
  cil Bills in 1987 Session; Directory of 1987 Legislative Council Committees;
Rules Clearing-
  house Reports; reports on substantive issues considered by council committees,
staff memo-
  randa, briefs, working documents and other miscellaneous materials (available
from the
  council).
Number of Employes: 35.17.
Total Budget 1985-87: $2,738,400.
Statutory Reference: Section 13.81 to 13.83, 13.91.
  History: The Legislative Council was created by Chapter 444, Laws of 1947,
and the first
council was organized later that year, with 12 members. Subsequent laws increased
the member-
ship in stages to the present 21 (Chapter 659, Laws of 1965; 1985 Wisconsin
Acts 29 and 95).
  Organization: The council is composed of the speaker and deputy speaker
of the Assembly,
the president of the Senate, the Senate and Assembly majority and minority
leaders, the 2
cochairpersons of and the ranking minority member from each house on the
Joint Committee on
Finance, and 5 senators and 5 representatives appointed as are standing committees
in each
house. Terms of appointive members expire on May 1 of each odd-numbered year.
  The council operates through a committee system. Some committees are set
by statute, others
are created by the council.


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