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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Free event: June 17: Navigating the New Economy: The booming border –Sponsored by WAGET, the Wisconsin Academy of Global Education and Training in partnership with WisBusiness.com and the Kenosha News — Even if the Foxconn

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement WHCA / WiCAL and LeadingAge Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Joint Finance is set today to take up a proposal from Sen. Dale Kooyenga that would use tax revenue from online sales to reduce taxes
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) introduced the Milk in Lunches for Kids (MILK) Act Wednesday, legislation to allow schools to serve all forms of milk, including flavored and unflavored whole milk and two percent
Contact: Katie Iliff, katiei@wisdems.org, 608-260-2417 MADISON – Governor Tony Evers’ capital budget seeks investment in an array of important building projects that have been neglected for years by the previous Republican administration. However, as a member of the Wisconsin Building
Contact: Ron Boehmer 202-225-2906 WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02) and David B. McKinley, P.E. (WV-01) today reintroduced H.R. 3219, the U.S. Call Center and Consumer Protection Act, to deter American companies from sending call center and service
For more information, contact: Holly Botsford, External Relations and Engagement Manager O: 414-955-8761, C: 414-688-7960 hbotsford@mcw.edu Milwaukee, June 12, 2019 – The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) thanks and applauds the members of the state’s budget-writing committee, the Joint Finance


There’s no manual on how to be a lieutenant governor and no specific responsibilities, other than being ready to become governor in the event of a resignation or death. But there’s a few unwritten political rules in the relationships between governor and lieutenant governor.

On an 11-4 party-line vote by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, state Republicans have pumped $231.6 million in new funding into direct caregiver wages, responding to that need. It’s a step in the right direction toward addressing both the workforce issue in nursing homes as well as helping to stop the closures we’re being faced with.

For sure, there are many abortion foes who sincerely believe that to abort a fetus is an intolerable sin. But, also for sure, there’s a vast swath of so-called “pro-life” advocates and lawmakers who are nothing but hypocrites.

New specs show its vastly smaller than the original plan. And not the LCD plant promised.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Free event: June 17: Navigating the New Economy: The booming border –Sponsored by WAGET, the Wisconsin Academy of Global Education and Training in partnership with WisBusiness.com and the Kenosha News — Even if the Foxconn development doesn’t reach its full promise, the southeastern Wisconsin border

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement WHCA / WiCAL and LeadingAge Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Joint Finance is set today to take up a proposal from Sen. Dale Kooyenga that would use tax revenue from online sales to reduce taxes on income in the state’s the second lowest bracket as
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) introduced the Milk in Lunches for Kids (MILK) Act Wednesday, legislation to allow schools to serve all forms of milk, including flavored and unflavored whole milk and two percent milk. Currently, schools are only allowed to serve flavored and
Contact: Katie Iliff, katiei@wisdems.org, 608-260-2417 MADISON – Governor Tony Evers’ capital budget seeks investment in an array of important building projects that have been neglected for years by the previous Republican administration. However, as a member of the Wisconsin Building Commission, Senator Patrick Testin (R-Stevens Point) voted against every measure
Contact: Ron Boehmer 202-225-2906 WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02) and David B. McKinley, P.E. (WV-01) today reintroduced H.R. 3219, the U.S. Call Center and Consumer Protection Act, to deter American companies from sending call center and service jobs to foreign countries. U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) reintroduced
For more information, contact: Holly Botsford, External Relations and Engagement Manager O: 414-955-8761, C: 414-688-7960 hbotsford@mcw.edu Milwaukee, June 12, 2019 – The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) thanks and applauds the members of the state’s budget-writing committee, the Joint Finance Committee (JFC), for their vote approving a State Building Commission


There’s no manual on how to be a lieutenant governor and no specific responsibilities, other than being ready to become governor in the event of a resignation or death. But there’s a few unwritten political rules in the relationships between governor and lieutenant governor.

On an 11-4 party-line vote by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, state Republicans have pumped $231.6 million in new funding into direct caregiver wages, responding to that need. It’s a step in the right direction toward addressing both the workforce issue in nursing homes as well as helping to stop the closures we’re being faced with.

For sure, there are many abortion foes who sincerely believe that to abort a fetus is an intolerable sin. But, also for sure, there’s a vast swath of so-called “pro-life” advocates and lawmakers who are nothing but hypocrites.

New specs show its vastly smaller than the original plan. And not the LCD plant promised.