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Rep. Adam Neylon on lawmakers and rulemaking in Wisconsin

State Rep. Adam Neylon, R-Pewaukee, discusses the level of oversight by the Wisconsin Legislature over the governor's office and state agencies in the rulemaking process to ensure checks and balances.

By Zac Schultz | Here & Now

September 3, 2025

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Adam Neylon on oversight in the rulemaking process to ensure checks and balances.


Adam Neylon:
If you are just looking at it from a objective standpoint, there has to be a fear from both sides that what somebody unethical or maybe not with the best interest of the state might be able to do through the rulemaking process. And just the idea that someone could target a business, someone could target an industry, put them out of business by raising their fees, by making the rules so impossible for them to navigate that I think there's going to be a fear on both sides that I think it is incumbent upon us as leaders in the state to step up and say, "No, let's have a bipartisan agreement where there's legislative oversight." We don't have to weaken the ability of the governor, but we can put a check back in place when an agency does a rule, it actually still goes through the legislative process.

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