# Howard Marklein

Howard Marklein is a Republican member of the Wisconsin Senate for district 17.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Wisconsin Senate, district 17
- Serving since: 2015-01-03
- Current term: WI 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/c405ad68-fdbd-43fe-abc2-f449f33c89b0

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c405ad68-fdbd-43fe-abc2-f449f33c89b0 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Marklein sits at +0.89 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 97% of State Senate Republicans.

## What Marklein says (WI 2025–26 session)

16 classified statements: 16 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State Senate Republicans average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Marklein | State Senate Republicans average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 0.0% | 2.3% | 272 of 354 |
| Policy criticism | 18.8% | 9.5% | 65 of 354 |
| Policy discussion | 62.5% | 37.3% | 30 of 354 |
| Bipartisanship | 6.3% | 2.3% | 29 of 354 |
| Credit claiming | 31.3% | 15.4% | 40 of 354 |
| Extreme labels | 0.0% | 1.3% | 261 of 354 |

Most discussed policy areas: Economics and Public Finance 30% (State Senate Republicans 12%); Taxation 30% (State Senate Republicans 7.1%); Education 20% (State Senate Republicans 14%); Agriculture and Food 10% (State Senate Republicans 6.2%); Energy 10% (State Senate Republicans 5.8%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.89 (standard error 0.02), from 2,156 donors and 581 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 97% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (WI 2025–26 session)

191 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Wisconsin Senate 99.8%). Party unity 99.1% (97.3%). 1 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 911 Relating to: funding for a battery collection and recycling program and making an appropriation. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB911/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 454 Relating to: a workforce home loan program. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB454/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 182 Relating to: changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB182/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 604 Relating to: coverage under the Medical Assistance program for incarcerated individuals. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB604/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 248 Relating to: vacancies in appointive state offices. · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB248/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 884 Relating to: who may purchase certain contractual services and technical changes to tax provisions related to qualified retirement plans and the film… · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB884/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 595 Relating to: compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act, voter registration data sharing agreements, removing ineligible voters from the… · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB595/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 373 Relating to: creating a refundable individual income tax credit for the parent of a stillbirth and making an appropriation. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB373/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 685 Relating to: individual income tax subtraction for certain theft losses. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB685/
- 2026-03-17 · voted yea · CONCURRENCE · AB 650 Relating to: funding for identity verification under the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation. (FE) · pass · https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/AB650/

## Legislation (WI 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 139 bills: 139 reached committee, 56 passed one chamber, 45 passed both, 39 became law. Cosponsored 0. 69.1% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Wisconsin Senate 42.9%; rank 9 of 33).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SJR 144: Relating to: accounting and expenditure of state funds and reduction of deficit (first consideration). (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR144/
- SB 1161: Relating to: ambulance staffing, late renewal and reinstatement of an emergency medical services practitioner license or emergency medical responder… (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1161/
- SJR 148: Relating to: commending employers that permit employees to leave work to perform volunteer emergency medical services duties. (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR148/
- SJR 135: Relating to: Commemorating the 250th anniversary of one of the first major victories for the Patriots in the Revolutionary War and recognizing the… (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR135/
- SB 1009: Relating to: the sale, service, and labeling of food products containing lab-grown milk and providing a penalty. (FE) (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1009/
- SB 1012: Relating to: interest rates on late, nondelinquent taxes and on overpayments. (FE) (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1012/
- SB 994: Relating to: public affairs network request for proposals. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB994/
- SJR 130: Relating to: celebrating the Wisconsin athletes competing in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games in Italy. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR130/
- SB 972: Relating to: recommendations made by the council on early literacy curricula. (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB972/
- SB 971: Relating to: exempting certain agricultural warehouses from automatic fire sprinkler requirements. (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB971/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $875.2K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 96% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-05-14 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/2054761065649463466
- 2025-10-21 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1980431358150471816
- 2025-10-01 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, bipartisanship, credit claiming · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1973454872402886974
- 2025-08-26 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1960461763406598503
- 2025-07-03 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1940609470067101866
- 2025-06-16 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1934673155689152638
- 2025-05-23 · Post on X · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1925990523069726726
- 2025-04-25 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1915836819159306386
- 2025-04-15 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1912199005389435206
- 2025-03-28 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion · https://x.com/SenMarklein/status/1905689232410378369

## Links

- Official site: https://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/17/marklein
- Campaign site: https://sites.google.com/howardmarklein.com/web/home
- X: https://x.com/SenMarklein
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SenMarklein
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/senatormarklein/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgrfZ-qO5m6UkSZ_tJKq_w

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c405ad68-fdbd-43fe-abc2-f449f33c89b0