According to prepared remarks the guv’s office released today, Evers will lay out three challenges to addressing the state’s workforce challenges, including addressing child care. His list also includes expanding paid family medical leave, a proposal Republicans rejected in the 2023-25 state budget, and investing in public education “at every level.”
GOP state Rep. Amanda Nedweski, co-author of legislation that would ask voters whether Wisconsin should ban abortion after 14 weeks, said the bill would give voters a chance to say whether state law should be stricter than the 20-week ban currently in place.
Vice President Kamala Harris in Waukesha today blasted Donald Trump for saying he was “proud” of his role in the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the constitutional right to abortion, arguing “he intended for them to take away your freedoms.”
Scott Walker, the former Wisconsin governor and 2016 presidential candidate, says the GOP primary race for president is over if Nikki Haley doesn’t win New Hampshire Tuesday.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss proposed maps submitted in the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court, a petition to the court to redraw the state’s congressional districts, the latest action in the Senate and Assembly, Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address next Tuesday and more.
Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August blasted Rep. Janel Brandtjen as a grifter for repeatedly trying to introduce a resolution to impeach Wisconsin Election Administrator Meagan Wolfe during Tuesday’s floor session.
AB 510 would establish a variety of rights for parents. Those include the right to be notified of and decline health care services, such as vaccines; to determine the name and pronouns the child uses at school; and to opt their children out of certain instructional materials. It would also require parents to be notified when a “controversial” subject will be taught and school.
The Assembly today approved a bill to ban credit card companies from using a transaction code that identifies firearm purchases and bar the Department of Justice from creating a firearm registry.
Welcome to our weekly DC Wrap, where we write about Wisconsin’s congressional delegation. Sign up here to receive the newsletter directly: https://forms.gle/YLYZtJWHPSt24HhZ7 Quotes of the week If you had to develop a strategy for destroying America, you’d be hard-pressed to
The petition, filed yesterday, argued a foundation of the lines now in place was the court’s 2021 decision to take a “least change approach” to the maps that Republican lawmakers drew a decade earlier. Now that the new liberal majority has thrown out that standard, the brief argues, there’s no justification to keep in place congressional lines based upon the same principle.
Gov. Tony Evers, who hasn’t said whether he will seek a third term in 2026, raised money at a slower clip last year than he did over the same period four years earlier.
The Senate today voted along party lines to back a $3 billion GOP plan to reduce the state’s third-highest income tax bracket while expanding a break for retirement income. Gov. Tony Evers has pledged to veto the bill, which now heads to his desk.
The GOP-controlled state Senate today rejected the nomination of Tyler Huebner to the Public Service Commission, the 10th executive branch appointment Republicans have shot down since Dem Gov. Tony Evers took office five years ago.
Ahead of Monday night’s Iowa Caucuses, Donald Trump Jr. called former House Speaker Paul Ryan “a RINO that the America First movement despises” as he worked to fire up former President Donald Trump’s base and push them to caucus tonight.
The remedial maps submitted to the state Supreme Court Friday generally would result in more Dem seats in the Assembly and Senate than the GOP drawn lines used in the 2022 elections.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Assembly Republicans’ medical marijuana bill, a new tax cut proposal Senate Republicans are working on, elections bills, the effort to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the Supreme Court’s legislative redistricting deadline and more.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu says he’s working on another income tax cut that would raise the income limits for the second-lowest tax bracket by more than $100,000.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin announced today she raised more than $3 million during the fourth quarter of 2023 as the Madison Dem continued to pull in money at a faster clip than she did six years ago. Baldwin, who’s still
In this week’s DC Wrap: Three Wisconsin Republicans vote with their GOP committee colleagues to approve resolutions to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with their subpoenas.
Those seeking to recall Robin Vos have filed a petition with the state Elections Commission indicating they are targeting the Assembly speaker for “blocking fair elections,” failing to impeach Meagan Wolfe and opposing Donald Trump.
According to prepared remarks the guv’s office released today, Evers will lay out three challenges to addressing the state’s workforce challenges, including addressing child care. His list also includes expanding paid family medical leave, a proposal Republicans rejected in the 2023-25 state budget, and investing in public education “at every level.”
GOP state Rep. Amanda Nedweski, co-author of legislation that would ask voters whether Wisconsin should ban abortion after 14 weeks, said the bill would give voters a chance to say whether state law should be stricter than the 20-week ban currently in place.
Vice President Kamala Harris in Waukesha today blasted Donald Trump for saying he was “proud” of his role in the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the constitutional right to abortion, arguing “he intended for them to take away your freedoms.”
Scott Walker, the former Wisconsin governor and 2016 presidential candidate, says the GOP primary race for president is over if Nikki Haley doesn’t win New Hampshire Tuesday.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss proposed maps submitted in the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court, a petition to the court to redraw the state’s congressional districts, the latest action in the Senate and Assembly, Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address next Tuesday and more.
Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August blasted Rep. Janel Brandtjen as a grifter for repeatedly trying to introduce a resolution to impeach Wisconsin Election Administrator Meagan Wolfe during Tuesday’s floor session.
AB 510 would establish a variety of rights for parents. Those include the right to be notified of and decline health care services, such as vaccines; to determine the name and pronouns the child uses at school; and to opt their children out of certain instructional materials. It would also require parents to be notified when a “controversial” subject will be taught and school.
The Assembly today approved a bill to ban credit card companies from using a transaction code that identifies firearm purchases and bar the Department of Justice from creating a firearm registry.
Welcome to our weekly DC Wrap, where we write about Wisconsin’s congressional delegation. Sign up here to receive the newsletter directly: https://forms.gle/YLYZtJWHPSt24HhZ7 Quotes of the week If you had to develop a strategy for destroying America, you’d be hard-pressed to come with a better plan than what Biden and his
The petition, filed yesterday, argued a foundation of the lines now in place was the court’s 2021 decision to take a “least change approach” to the maps that Republican lawmakers drew a decade earlier. Now that the new liberal majority has thrown out that standard, the brief argues, there’s no justification to keep in place congressional lines based upon the same principle.
Gov. Tony Evers, who hasn’t said whether he will seek a third term in 2026, raised money at a slower clip last year than he did over the same period four years earlier.
The Senate today voted along party lines to back a $3 billion GOP plan to reduce the state’s third-highest income tax bracket while expanding a break for retirement income. Gov. Tony Evers has pledged to veto the bill, which now heads to his desk.
The GOP-controlled state Senate today rejected the nomination of Tyler Huebner to the Public Service Commission, the 10th executive branch appointment Republicans have shot down since Dem Gov. Tony Evers took office five years ago.
Ahead of Monday night’s Iowa Caucuses, Donald Trump Jr. called former House Speaker Paul Ryan “a RINO that the America First movement despises” as he worked to fire up former President Donald Trump’s base and push them to caucus tonight.
The remedial maps submitted to the state Supreme Court Friday generally would result in more Dem seats in the Assembly and Senate than the GOP drawn lines used in the 2022 elections.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Assembly Republicans’ medical marijuana bill, a new tax cut proposal Senate Republicans are working on, elections bills, the effort to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the Supreme Court’s legislative redistricting deadline and more.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu says he’s working on another income tax cut that would raise the income limits for the second-lowest tax bracket by more than $100,000.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin announced today she raised more than $3 million during the fourth quarter of 2023 as the Madison Dem continued to pull in money at a faster clip than she did six years ago. Baldwin, who’s still waiting for a top-tier GOP challenger to emerge for this
In this week’s DC Wrap: Three Wisconsin Republicans vote with their GOP committee colleagues to approve resolutions to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with their subpoenas.
Those seeking to recall Robin Vos have filed a petition with the state Elections Commission indicating they are targeting the Assembly speaker for “blocking fair elections,” failing to impeach Meagan Wolfe and opposing Donald Trump.