Rep. Richards Calls For Compact Vote In The Assembly

State Assembly Assistant Minority leader John Richards, (D-Milwaukee), wants the Assembly to vote on the Great Lakes Compact before Thursday, March 13th.

He notes that if the vote doesn't happen by then, it can't come up for a vote until 2009.

The bill's fate is in the hands of the GOP, which controls the Assembly, but whose members stepped up to the plate added significant voters to the Compact 26-6 approval in the Senate.

The entire Great Lakes region, and conservationists around the world, are watching: will the Assembly, where its GOP leaders have threatened to table the Compact, or seed it with poison pills, rise to the occasion?