Republican state senator Dan Feyen of Fond du Lac has voted against calling for a convention of the states to consider making a variety of changes to the U.S. Constitution. The proposal this week drew bipartisan opposition in the state senate but not enough to block its approval. Feyen says he voted against it because it was too vague and ambiguous. The resolution allowed for the convention to consider imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the federal government’s powers and jurisdiction and imposing term limits for members of congress. Feyen says he had concerns about what limiting the federal government’s powers really means. “This would just limit the powers of the federal government with a lot of words, and it doesn’t clearly define what they want to do,” Feyen told WFDL news. “So I voted against it for that reason.” The resolution had passed 15 states, mostly in the south, before Wisconsin became the first since Mississippi in 2019 to approve it.
