Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The GOP members of the Building Commission are signaling they’ll move at today’s meeting to send Gov. Tony Evers’ capital budget to the Joint Finance Committee without a recommendation. Republican lawmakers on the commission tried a similar tactic

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement La Follette School of Public Affairs From WisPolitics.com … — Both houses of the Legislature will be on the floor today. The Assembly plans to take up AB 34. It would require health insurance providers to cover those with pre-existing conditions if the Affordable Care

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Climate Reality Action Fund From WisPolitics.com … — A Better Wisconsin Together Political Fund and the American Federation for Children Action Fund are now both running ads in the state schools superintendent’s race. A Better Wisconsin Together Political Fund reported $402,000 on a cable buy

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — The state superintendent candidates disagreed during a forum last night on tying pandemic-related school funding to opening schools for in-person classes. In a Public Education Network and League of Women Voters virtual event, former Brown Deer School

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act would generate an additional $1 billion in general purpose revenue savings thanks to provisions in the COVID relief bill that cleared Congress this week, according to a new Legislative Fiscal Bureau

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — DOT Secretary Craig Thompson, who failed to get a floor vote last session even though a committee backed his appointment 4-0, is getting another look from Senate Republicans. The Senate Transportation and Local Government Committee has a

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Government Accountability and Oversight Committee plans to exec today on a bill that would require Gov. Tony Evers to submit a plan to the Legislature to return state employees to in-person work. As drafted, the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A Republican senator sponsoring legislation to change state election laws says he’s trying to preserve integrity in elections, while a Dem lawmaker calls it an attempt at voter suppression. Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Cedarburg, and Sen. Melissa Agard, D-Madison,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Both state superintendent candidates said they want to reopen schools to in-person instruction as soon as possible now that teachers are getting vaccinated. Pecatonica School District Superintendent Jill Underly and former Brown Deer School District Superintendent Deborah Kerr

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules is voting on a motion that would require the Elections Commission to issue an emergency rule before providing clerks new guidance on special voting deputies. Co-chair Steve Nass, R-Whitewater,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly committee will take public testimony today on bills that would ban mandatory COVID-19 vaccines and strip the powers of state and local officials to restrict meetings at houses of worship during the pandemic. The provisions were

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — State schools superintendent candidate Deb Kerr has hired Crossroads Solutions to run her race after the former campaign manager left last month, the campaign told WisPolitics.com. The firm, led by operative Chelsea Cross, was brought on board

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — In a weekend TV appearance, the candidates for state schools superintendent clashed over voucher schools and their own district leadership during the pandemic. Deborah Kerr, former superintendent of the Brown Deer Schools, and Jill Underly, superintendent of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers announced today Wisconsinites who have lost income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic may be eligible for more than $322 million in funding to help cover rent, utilities, home energy costs and other services.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Senate Universities and Technical Colleges Committee has an informational hearing planned today at UW-Whitewater on campus free speech. The hearing will be limited to invited speakers, who include Polly Olsen. She sued Northeast Wisconsin Technical College after

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is set to be on the floor today to take up an amended unemployment special session bill. The Senate approved the amended version of Gov. Tony Evers’ bill to include liability protections for businesses. Evers

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — A federal judge referred a Minneapolis attorney to the Committee on Grievances for possible sanctions after finding the lawsuit he filed to overturn presidential election results in Wisconsin and four other states smacks of “political gamesmanship.” Washington, D.C.-based

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The campaign manager for state schools superintendent candidate Deb Kerr is leaving, telling WisPolitics.com he can’t provide the general election strategy she will need to win. Brandon Savage has worked almost exclusively with Dem candidates and groups in

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state Senate is set to convene this morning to take up a revised version of Gov. Tony Evers’ special session bill to begin the overhaul of the unemployment insurance computer system. The Joint Finance Committee yesterday amended

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Association of Wisconsin Lobbyists From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers is proposing an overhaul of how Wisconsin treats juvenile offenders, including moving almost all minors out of the adult criminal justice system and revamping the state’s approach to youth prisons. Evers said in his