Bills advance through Assembly and Senate floor sessions

Today’s Midday podcast covers a sampling of bills making their way through the Legislature. The Senate advanced a series of police reform bills and the Assembly passed bills to make publicly funded sports venues play the national anthem before games and to expand school voucher eligibility. wispolitics · 210512 Final

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U.S. Reps. Pocan, Kind, Moore: Request full ARP funds for Wisconsin

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02), Gwen Moore (WI-04), and Ron Kind (WI-03) sent a letter today to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen opposing the Treasury’s reduced allocations for the state of Wisconsin from the American Rescue Plan’s Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. When the American Rescue Plan was signed into

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Opportunity Wisconsin: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel- “How President Biden’s rescue plan could help poor kids in Wisconsin”

MADISON, Wis.— In case you missed it, last week the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an opinion article from Tim Smeeding, a Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the La Follette School and former director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. KEY POINT: “Passed in March, the $1.9

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U.S. Sen. Johnson: Our national security is at risk because Democrats have turned border security into a partisan issue

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined several Republican colleagues at a press conference earlier today to discuss the Biden administration’s creation of the humanitarian and security crisis at the southern border. The senator also offered an amendment at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs business meeting that called for completing the

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WILL: Sues Biden administration for race, sex discrimination in allocation of COVID relief funds for restaurants

The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a Tennessee restaurant owner against the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) over race and gender discrimination in the administration of the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $28.6 billion program authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

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Dept. of Natural Resources: Seeking public comment for environmental review of city of Waterloo safe drinking water loan program project

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the City of Waterloo is an applicant for funding through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program (SDWLP) to address deficiencies in its public drinking water system. The project includes the replacement of lead service lines throughout the City of Waterloo.

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