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The Joint Finance Committee will take up the UW System budget on Tuesday. Gov. Scott Walker has proposed freezing tuition for in-state undergrads in the first year of the 2017-19 budget and then cutting it 5 percent in the second. He’s also called for using $35 million in general purpose revenue to backfill the tuition cut, but some GOP lawmakers have expressed opposition to that proposal. The com...