Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is due to take up the special session welfare overhaul package on the floor this afternoon. Nine of the bills have cleared a Senate committee as of this week. The chamber will also vote on

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — After lengthy debate, the Assembly passed a bill 91-2 to help rural schools. The bill would increase sparsity aid and low-revenue ceilings for school districts. Authored by Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, and championed by Gov. Scott Walker,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Supreme Court candidate Michael Screnock raised $231,861 over the first five weeks of the year, with almost half of that coming from the Republican Party of Wisconsin through in-kind donations, according to his report filed with the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state GOP has made a $31,152 in-kind contribution to Judge Michael Screnock’s Supreme Court campaign, according to a reported filed with the Ethics Commission. The late contribution report last week included no details of the donation. A

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Wisconsin congressional delegation split along party lines over a government spending bill that cleared the House early this morning. The 240-186 vote ended a brief government shutdown, as the bill was held up in the Senate by

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will reconvene today to exec several bills, including one that would boost state aid for small, rural districts. The bill, which also would allow low-spending districts to collect more in property taxes, was before

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — A bill that would increase the amount of money that could be claimed under Wisconsin’s historic rehabilitation tax credit is one of several measures before the JFC today. Under the measure, by Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills and

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The conservative Concerned Veterans for America today announced a $1.5 million statewide TV and digital ad campaign targeting U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, on the Tomah VA scandal. The narrator opens the spot saying the Tomah VA “over

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Lawmakers collected more than $1.3 million in per diem last year as the budget stretched into September, about $139,000 more than 2015, when they finished the spending plan in July. Members of the Assembly topped $1 million as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker and former Gov. Tommy Thompson are traveling the state today to tout a package of 10 welfare overhaul bills and the state’s unemployment numbers. The two will be stopping in Milwaukee, Green Bay and La

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — An Assembly panel this morning is slated to vote on a substitute amendment that would significantly pare back a GOP wetlands bill. While the original bill would exempt all state wetlands from permitting requirements, the sub from

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Speaker Robin Vos will testify at a joint hearing this morning on a set of bills he authored with Sen. Chris Kapenga that would overhaul the state’s welfare system. The hearing is part of a special session called

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Several members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation have announced guests they’ll bring to President Trump’s first State of the Union Speech tonight. And one guest is causing a spat between two congressmen. Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Kelda Roys has hired Sonja Chojnacki as her new campaign manager. Chojnacki, 34, is a Wisconsin native who returns to the state after working in political consulting and on several campaigns across the nation. Some

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, is now calling for the Legislature to appoint an Elections Commission administrator if commissioners don’t. His announcement came just a day after the Elections Commission voted 4-2 to re-appoint Michael Haas as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says the Elections Commission’s vote to re-appoint its administrator one day after the Senate moved to oust him “doesn’t make any sense.” Commissioners yesterday voted 4-2 to keep Michael Haas on through April

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald charged the old GAB was engaged in an active conspiracy to tilt the recall elections of 2011 and 2012 against Republicans and push them out of power as retribution for Act 10.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The three candidates for state Supreme Court traded barbs Monday about their judicial philosophies and records during their first debate ahead of next month’s primary. Sauk County Circuit Court Judge Michael Screnock took the first shot during

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Ethics Commission Administrator Brian Bell continued to criticize staff of the old GAB and the current Elections Commission over the handling of records from a John Doe probe as he answered questions from a GOP senator ahead of

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state’s House delegation split along party lines on a short term spending bill that passed the House 230-197 late yesterday. But the bill’s future in the Senate remains unclear, where national media reports indicate Dems intend to