Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, blocked a vote on Feb. 4 to fund the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project.
The bipartisan bill would have given $1 million over two years to the project working to identify and recover missing U.S. military personnel from past conflicts. 1,500 MIA American service members come from Wisconsin, according to the project’s website.
UW MIA Recovery project team lead Charles Konsitzke testified Jan. 29 in support of the bill…