It is my understanding that even with the absence of its Democratic contingent the Wisconsin Senate may consider legislation that is not budget related. Now might be a good time for the WI upper house to consider a statute to require all persons being placed on the WI Ballot for the office of U.S. president be required to present a valid birth certificate. This statute would be non-partisan and not aimed at any individual politician but would be in pursuit of good governance. This might help productively use downtime that otherwise might be wasted by not having 2/3 of the legislative body present. As it now stands a completely faultless politician could conceivably be tainted by accusations of not being a U.S. citizen. Such a statute would go a long way towards protecting such a politician from such unfounded accusations. The WI legislature may even wish to title such a proposed piece of legislation the “2011 Anti-Birther Law”. Democrats certainly pride themselves as being the party of good governance and some of the missing Democratic WI Senators may wish to return so that they may have some input into such a statute. Should any Democratic WI Senators return this would obviously allow the upper house to then also address budget related items which as this post indicates is quite timely and necessary.