# Bob Wirch

Bob Wirch is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate for district 22.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Wisconsin Senate, district 22
- Serving since: 1997-01-06
- Current term: WI 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/dc69e926-a090-4561-bb0f-2f81ec0dc977

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/dc69e926-a090-4561-bb0f-2f81ec0dc977 (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

Wirch sits at −0.39 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 85% of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.39 (standard error 0.02), from 465 donors and 579 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 85% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (WI 2025–26 session)

191 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Wisconsin Senate 99.8%). Party unity 96.7% (97.3%). 13 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 nay · 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 nay · 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 198 bills: 198 reached committee, 21 passed one chamber, 7 passed both, 7 became law. Cosponsored 0. 14.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Wisconsin Senate 42.9%; rank 24 of 33).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SB 1151: Relating to: general equalization aids, the reimbursement rate for special education costs, excluding special education reimbursement from certain per pupil… (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1151/
- SB 1139: Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States and granting rule-making… (in committee, 2026-04-08) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1139/
- SB 1117: Relating to: entering into an agreement among the states to elect the president and vice president of the United States by means of a national popular vote. (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1117/
- SB 1115: Relating to: minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses’ right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered… (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1115/
- SB 1118: Relating to: state procurement of products and services from businesses located in this state and setting a goal for local governments to purchase a certain… (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1118/
- SJR 146: Relating to: reserving to the people the power of referendum to reject acts of the legislature and the power of initiative to propose and approve at an… (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR146/
- SB 1179: Relating to: a home repair program and making an appropriation. (FE) (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1179/
- SB 1126: Relating to: a state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1126/
- SB 1169: Relating to: a first-time home buyer purchasing assistance fund and loan program and making an appropriation. (FE) (in committee, 2026-04-07) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SB1169/
- SJR 145: Relating to: state contracts for stationery and printing (first consideration). (in committee, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wi/bills/2025/SJR145/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $10.6K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 99% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/legislators/senate/2440
- Campaign site: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/senate/wirch
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bob.wirch.5

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/dc69e926-a090-4561-bb0f-2f81ec0dc977