The committee voted 12-4 along party lines to approve the wrap-up motion that includes moving up a pay increase for state employees and requiring the UW System to start tracking teaching loads.
Dems noted the wrap-up motion -- normally called 999, but 421 this year -- did not contain some of the controversial provisions in past budgets such as a gutting of the open records law in 2015. It was also much shorter than the last several budgets.
Still, Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, said that was largely because Republicans have sprinkled policy throughout the budget this time to avoid a lengthy mot...
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