
Senate must pass state REINS Act
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Senate must pass state REINS Act
Back in the early 2000s, the state of Wisconsin - and the Republicans controlling the government at the time - had a golden opportunity to change the way the regulatory world works, and they botched it.The issue then was the power of the Department of Natural Resources and its reign of terror over property owners. Innocent lives were literally being ruined by regulatory thugs, and the Legislature had finally had enough.