In 2008, Representative Mike Huebsch was re-elected by the people of the 94th Assembly District to represent them in Madison, the eighth time the people of the Coulee Region have given him this distinct honor and privilege. 

The core issues Rep. Huebsch champions today are the same issues that brought him to the State Legislature more than a decade ago: lowering Wisconsin’s tax burden, providing property tax relief, making government more efficient and accountable, and creating jobs.  He has led on these issues throughout his career, including a four-year-stint on the legislature’s powerful budget-writing Joint Finance Committee, two as vice-chair.  In 2005, his colleagues chose him to be the Assembly Majority Leader and in 2007, he was elected Assembly Speaker.  During the 2009 legislative session, Rep. Huebsch serves on the Assembly Committee on Financial Institutions and the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and is the ranking member on the Assembly Committee on Energy and Utilities. 

Rep. Huebsch sets his legislative priorities with an eye toward what matters to the families in his district in western Wisconsin and with the knowledge that when Wisconsin leads, much of the nation follows.  He has been a strong advocate for a property tax freeze, limits on government spending, photo ID election reform, eliminating the social security tax, death tax and the tax on retirement and pension plans, creating a consumer-driven healthcare system, applying common sense to our litigation system, protecting our sporting heritage and reforming government’s relationship with the businesses it regulates.

In 1995, Rep. Huebsch was an author of the groundbreaking Wisconsin Works welfare reform legislation. Since then, he has advanced proposals to reform our health care system, including providing tax-free health savings accounts, requiring health care providers to release new cost data and leading the way on one of the nation’s first healthcare quality reporting initiatives.  To ensure Wisconsin families continue to have access to the best doctors in the nation, in 2005, he led the effort to reestablish limits on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice case after a 1995 law was thrown out by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and a first attempt at reinstating it was vetoed by Governor Doyle.

In 2001, Rep. Huebsch proposed repealing Wisconsin's moratorium on new nuclear power plants and has continued to champion this change in our state's energy policy for the last eight years as a way to reduce energy costs, bring more businesses to our state and reduce air emissions.  In 2007, a special committee of legislators, industry experts and customer representatives recommended a repeal of the moratorium, and in 2008, the Governor's Global Warming Task Force recommended reexamining the ban.

In 2007, Rep. Huebsch worked to reauthorize Wisconsin's Stewardship program which allows the state to purchase land for permanent public use and environmental protection.  With the program in place until 2020 and improved by increased legislative oversight and reforms requiring the land to be open for use by hunters and anglers, Wisconsin's sporting heritage and natural resources remain protected.  

Rep. Huebsch was born in Milwaukee and has been a resident of La Crosse County for the last 40 years.  He graduated from Onalaska high school and left the area briefly to attend Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma and work as a legislative aide in Madison.  He returned to Onalaska in 1990, and was a member of the La Crosse County Board from 1992 to 1995.  He currently lives in West Salem with his wife, Valerie, and their two children, Ryan and Brett.