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The state Senate today cobbled together a bipartisan coalition to pass legislation funding maintenance at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium after adding a new amendment to increase a ticket tax on non-baseball events to help drive down the state’s contribution.
The Assembly today 62-36 approved the more than $2.2 billion tax cut plan the Senate swapped in to replace Gov. Tony Evers’ special session workforce development package.
The Assembly today approved by voice vote a bill aiming to ensure out-of-state mental health care providers with licenses in other states don’t have to be licensed in Wisconsin to offer telehealth services in the state.
The state Senate today approved sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s alcohol policies, using the amendment process to bypass a committee holdup that had prevented the package from coming to the floor.
Backers of legislation to overhaul the state’s alcohol policies are considering getting the proposal to the Senate floor today by offering it as an amendment to another bill already on the calendar, according to multiple sources. The tactic could face
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, D-Madison, said there weren’t enough votes yet to pass the Brewers funding bill as negotiations intensified this weekend ahead of a vote Tuesday in the state Senate.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss developments regarding the Brewers stadium maintenance funding deal, GOP infighting over the effort to oust Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, a series of elections bills lawmakers approved this week and more.
Yesterday’s vote comes amid a standoff between the Legislature and the Universities of Wisconsin over diversity, equity and inclusion. It also comes after the state Senate voted to fire eight of Evers’ appointees, including four members of the Natural Resources Board.
The Assembly today passed a series of election-related measures, including a pair of omnibus bills that would give clerks more whistleblower and privacy protections and allow them to start processing absentee ballots before election night.
The governor would be prohibited from filling vacancies in constitutional offices without a special election or Senate approval, and judicial candidates who turn 75 after Election Day would be barred from taking office under another pair of bills the Assembly passed today.
Voters will now weigh in on whether non-citizens should be barred from voting in Wisconsin and if local and state governments should be prohibited from using private money to cover election costs after a pair of constitutional amendments cleared the Assembly.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan says he’s working on a letter to the White House asking the administration to press Israel to describe what the end of its war with Hamas will look like. The town of Vermont Dem in a WisPolitics Capitol Chats podcast this week said Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza, where many Palestinians live and where Hamas has been hiding many of the hostages taken during its Oct. 7 attack, is not a long-term solution. The attack that left more than 1,000 Israeli civilians dead prompted Israeli forces to respond with what Pocan called “wholesale bombing.”
GOP legislative leaders are demanding the Wisconsin Elections Commission appoint a new administrator after a filing from the agency’s DOJ attorneys contradicted statements from Dem commissioners that they had no power to do so. Republicans have asked a Dane County judge to rule the commission had a duty to appoint a new commissioner after Meagan Wolfe’s four-year term ended in July.
The Assembly Tuesday passed 62-35 along party lines a bill to eliminate race-based higher education programs as Dems argued the bill is unnecessary and discriminatory. Republicans, meanwhile, praised the bill, which would focus those programs on students deemed disadvantaged. GOP
Non-citizens would be barred from voting in Wisconsin and state and local governments would no longer be able to use private funds to cover election costs under constitutional amendments that cleared the Senate along party lines today.
GOP Sen. Dan Feyen, a co-author of the Brewers stadium bill, today introduced an amendment that would reduce the state’s contribution to the deal, require the team to put in more money and audit the finances of the district that oversees the facility.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said a new $32 million proposal will “go some ways” toward addressing the state’s workforce needs as UW seeks to recoup money GOP lawmakers cut from its budget over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Schimming said the state GOP, in coordination with the Republican National Committee, is preparing a major push to encourage Republicans to vote early ahead of the November election. Meanwhile, Wikler says Dems must not take anything for granted.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against legislative Republicans over blocking Universities of Wisconsin pay raises, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ move to send articles of impeachment against the state’s top elections official to a committee, upcoming action in the state Legislature and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has sent to committee a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official, six weeks after five lawmakers introduced the proposal and on the heels of a new TV campaign pressuring him to move on it.
The state Senate today cobbled together a bipartisan coalition to pass legislation funding maintenance at the Milwaukee Brewers stadium after adding a new amendment to increase a ticket tax on non-baseball events to help drive down the state’s contribution.
The Assembly today 62-36 approved the more than $2.2 billion tax cut plan the Senate swapped in to replace Gov. Tony Evers’ special session workforce development package.
The Assembly today approved by voice vote a bill aiming to ensure out-of-state mental health care providers with licenses in other states don’t have to be licensed in Wisconsin to offer telehealth services in the state.
The state Senate today approved sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s alcohol policies, using the amendment process to bypass a committee holdup that had prevented the package from coming to the floor.
Backers of legislation to overhaul the state’s alcohol policies are considering getting the proposal to the Senate floor today by offering it as an amendment to another bill already on the calendar, according to multiple sources. The tactic could face several roadblocks, the sources noted. The bill, co-authored by Senate
Senate Minority Leader Melissa Agard, D-Madison, said there weren’t enough votes yet to pass the Brewers funding bill as negotiations intensified this weekend ahead of a vote Tuesday in the state Senate.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss developments regarding the Brewers stadium maintenance funding deal, GOP infighting over the effort to oust Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, a series of elections bills lawmakers approved this week and more.
Yesterday’s vote comes amid a standoff between the Legislature and the Universities of Wisconsin over diversity, equity and inclusion. It also comes after the state Senate voted to fire eight of Evers’ appointees, including four members of the Natural Resources Board.
The Assembly today passed a series of election-related measures, including a pair of omnibus bills that would give clerks more whistleblower and privacy protections and allow them to start processing absentee ballots before election night.
The governor would be prohibited from filling vacancies in constitutional offices without a special election or Senate approval, and judicial candidates who turn 75 after Election Day would be barred from taking office under another pair of bills the Assembly passed today.
Voters will now weigh in on whether non-citizens should be barred from voting in Wisconsin and if local and state governments should be prohibited from using private money to cover election costs after a pair of constitutional amendments cleared the Assembly.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan says he’s working on a letter to the White House asking the administration to press Israel to describe what the end of its war with Hamas will look like. The town of Vermont Dem in a WisPolitics Capitol Chats podcast this week said Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza, where many Palestinians live and where Hamas has been hiding many of the hostages taken during its Oct. 7 attack, is not a long-term solution. The attack that left more than 1,000 Israeli civilians dead prompted Israeli forces to respond with what Pocan called “wholesale bombing.”
GOP legislative leaders are demanding the Wisconsin Elections Commission appoint a new administrator after a filing from the agency’s DOJ attorneys contradicted statements from Dem commissioners that they had no power to do so. Republicans have asked a Dane County judge to rule the commission had a duty to appoint a new commissioner after Meagan Wolfe’s four-year term ended in July.
The Assembly Tuesday passed 62-35 along party lines a bill to eliminate race-based higher education programs as Dems argued the bill is unnecessary and discriminatory. Republicans, meanwhile, praised the bill, which would focus those programs on students deemed disadvantaged. GOP state Rep. Dave Murphy, Chair of the Colleges and Universities
Non-citizens would be barred from voting in Wisconsin and state and local governments would no longer be able to use private funds to cover election costs under constitutional amendments that cleared the Senate along party lines today.
GOP Sen. Dan Feyen, a co-author of the Brewers stadium bill, today introduced an amendment that would reduce the state’s contribution to the deal, require the team to put in more money and audit the finances of the district that oversees the facility.
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said a new $32 million proposal will “go some ways” toward addressing the state’s workforce needs as UW seeks to recoup money GOP lawmakers cut from its budget over diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Schimming said the state GOP, in coordination with the Republican National Committee, is preparing a major push to encourage Republicans to vote early ahead of the November election. Meanwhile, Wikler says Dems must not take anything for granted.
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against legislative Republicans over blocking Universities of Wisconsin pay raises, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ move to send articles of impeachment against the state’s top elections official to a committee, upcoming action in the state Legislature and more.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has sent to committee a resolution to impeach the state’s top election official, six weeks after five lawmakers introduced the proposal and on the heels of a new TV campaign pressuring him to move on it.