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It’s cost state taxpayers $1.1 billion. Why won’t Republicans accept the money?
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Richard Niess Niess’s belief that the judiciary can intervene when it doesn’t like how one of the other branches of government sets its own schedule is simultaneously laughable and terrifying. That three Wisconsin Supreme Court justices agreed with it is downright chilling.
Throughout the budget process, my Republican colleagues on the Joint Finance Committee repeatedly touted how eight years of Republican rule had “turned the state around.” Yet the facts reveal a starkly different picture.
The Legislature completed work on the state budget, and I am proud to say it invests in the people of Wisconsin while protecting taxpayers.
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — It’s onto the state Senate for the state budget after the Assembly signed off on the GOP’s version 60-39. The Senate is scheduled to convene at 10 a.m.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — WEDC CEO Mark Hogan today said he will step down from his role in the coming months. Hogan confirmed his plans at the Milwaukee Rotary Club this afternoon but failed to provide
New state Dem Chair Ben Wikler is starting a national search for a single executive director to help lead the party, one of his first significant staffing moves since winning election to the post earlier this month. Wikler’s predecessor, Martha
MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul, along with a multistate group of 18 other attorneys general, today sent a comment letter opposing the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposal to narrow the interpretation of joint employment, thereby complicating how states
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One house can hold up the whole process and two GOP senators have already said they oppose the budget passed by the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee.
Earlier this year, we authored a bill that sought to end the practice of discriminatory abortion. The Shield the Vulnerable Act would have protected children targeted on the basis of gender, race, or disability. The bill passed the Assembly and Senate, and needed only the governor’s signature to become law.
It’s cost state taxpayers $1.1 billion. Why won’t Republicans accept the money?
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Richard Niess Niess’s belief that the judiciary can intervene when it doesn’t like how one of the other branches of government sets its own schedule is simultaneously laughable and terrifying. That three Wisconsin Supreme Court justices agreed with it is downright chilling.
Throughout the budget process, my Republican colleagues on the Joint Finance Committee repeatedly touted how eight years of Republican rule had “turned the state around.” Yet the facts reveal a starkly different picture.
The Legislature completed work on the state budget, and I am proud to say it invests in the people of Wisconsin while protecting taxpayers.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers STORY TOPICS – White house – State government – Federal government – Local government – Agribusiness – Civil liberties – Courts – Demographics – Education – Elections – Foxconn – Health care – Law and order – Media – Non-profits – Real estate – Regulation –
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — It’s onto the state Senate for the state budget after the Assembly signed off on the GOP’s version 60-39. The Senate is scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. today with a calendar that also includes: four transportation bills;
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — WEDC CEO Mark Hogan today said he will step down from his role in the coming months. Hogan confirmed his plans at the Milwaukee Rotary Club this afternoon but failed to provide a specific date for departing the state’s jobs agency. WEDC
New state Dem Chair Ben Wikler is starting a national search for a single executive director to help lead the party, one of his first significant staffing moves since winning election to the post earlier this month. Wikler’s predecessor, Martha Laning, had split the executive director’s job into two positions.
MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul, along with a multistate group of 18 other attorneys general, today sent a comment letter opposing the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposal to narrow the interpretation of joint employment, thereby complicating how states enforce labor laws and leaving millions of workers vulnerable to
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One house can hold up the whole process and two GOP senators have already said they oppose the budget passed by the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee.
Earlier this year, we authored a bill that sought to end the practice of discriminatory abortion. The Shield the Vulnerable Act would have protected children targeted on the basis of gender, race, or disability. The bill passed the Assembly and Senate, and needed only the governor’s signature to become law.