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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Dems are meeting in closed caucus outside the Capitol this afternoon as speculation swirled about Peter Barca’s future as minority leader. Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, emerged briefly from the off-site caucus
A Senate committee today approved a bill 3-2 overhauling the state’s forfeiture laws that would limit law enforcement’s ability to keep people’s property when they haven’t been convicted of a crime. Supporters said it would help those who are innocent
A bill that would end the so-called sulfide mining moratorium was touted by backers today as an economic development opportunity for northern Wisconsin on the heels of the Foxconn announcement. But environmental activists argued it would come at the expense
Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t expect the Senate and Assembly to make any major changes to the budget, which the full Legislature will take up next week. “My guess is there won’t be large changes next week, if any, and that
The Assembly will be on the floor Sept. 13 to take up the budget and Sept. 14 for the Foxconn bill, according to an email from Majority Leader Jim Steineke. The start times will be announced next week, according to
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** How will Foxconn and the state budget affect Walker’s re-election odds? Find out on Sept. 14 when a WisPolitics.com panel convenes in Milwaukee. Participants include: –Betsy Ankney, manager for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s winning 2016
Following are a list of motions adopted by the Joint Finance Committee beginning May 1, and broken down by agency: Final Motion and Adoption of the Substitute Amendments https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170906JFCFinal.pdf Administration – Facilities https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170524JFC241.pdf Administration – General Agency Provisions https://www.w… Please
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is poised to take up the budget next week after the Joint Finance Committee put the final touches on its version of the two-year spending plan.
Republicans put the final touches on their version of the state budget late Tuesday, as the Joint Finance Committee added provisions that would repeal the AMT, create new tax breaks for broadcasters and nix a series of tax cuts Gov.
The committee voted 12-4 along party lines to approve the wrap-up motion that includes moving up a pay increase for state employees and requiring the UW System to start tracking teaching loads. Dems noted the wrap-up motion — normally called
The committee approved the GOP tax package 12-3 along party lines. Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, was not in the room for the vote. JFC is now moving to the wrap-up motion…. Please log in to access subscriber content. If you
The UW System Board of Regents would have to develop a plan to monitor teaching workloads of faculty and instructional staff under the wrap-up motion JFC Republicans released late this afternoon. The guv originally included the provision in his budget,
Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee are proposing the elimination of the alternative minimum tax starting in 2019 while nixing a series of tax changes Gov. Scott Walker had originally proposed. The alternative minimum tax repeal would decrease revenues $1.75
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee this afternoon was working through the final votes on the state budget, including a tax package that would create a new exemption to the personal property tax that
The committee approved 12-4 along party lines a motion that includes a new exemption to the personal property tax with a price tag of $74.4 million annually. The personal property tax provision would kick in Jan. 1, 2018, and exempt
The Joint Finance Committee kicked of its final budget action Wednesday with a 12-4 party-line vote to revamp the special needs scholarship, which allows students with a disability to receive state money to attend private schools. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau
GOP U.S. Sen. John McCain and his Dem colleague Sheldon Whitehouse are among the more than two dozen parties who filed briefs this week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find Wisconsin’s Assembly maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. McCain, R-Ariz., and
A motion that would dial back some local governments’ regulations of quarries where the material is mined for transportation projects is drawing fire from WMC for picking “winners and losers” among the state’s industries. But Aggregate Producers of Wisconsin Executive
Planned expansions of the Milwaukee streetcar would become much more difficult under the transportation motion that JFC signed off on last night, one critic says. Milwaukee’s streetcar, which local officials say will boost economic development downtown, has drawn the ire
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** September 14: Panel discussion on the state of politics and policy in DC and Wisconsin and how it will affect 2018 elections Join WisPolitics at UW-Milwaukee for lunch and a panel discussion on the state
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Dems are meeting in closed caucus outside the Capitol this afternoon as speculation swirled about Peter Barca’s future as minority leader. Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, emerged briefly from the off-site caucus but declined comment other than to say, “I’ve always supported
A Senate committee today approved a bill 3-2 overhauling the state’s forfeiture laws that would limit law enforcement’s ability to keep people’s property when they haven’t been convicted of a crime. Supporters said it would help those who are innocent and whose cash or property is seized, while opponents said
A bill that would end the so-called sulfide mining moratorium was touted by backers today as an economic development opportunity for northern Wisconsin on the heels of the Foxconn announcement. But environmental activists argued it would come at the expense of clean water and jeopardize the state’s other natural resources.
Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t expect the Senate and Assembly to make any major changes to the budget, which the full Legislature will take up next week. “My guess is there won’t be large changes next week, if any, and that we’ll have a pretty good idea by the time we
The Assembly will be on the floor Sept. 13 to take up the budget and Sept. 14 for the Foxconn bill, according to an email from Majority Leader Jim Steineke. The start times will be announced next week, according to the email. Meanwhile, the Senate is set to vote on
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** How will Foxconn and the state budget affect Walker’s re-election odds? Find out on Sept. 14 when a WisPolitics.com panel convenes in Milwaukee. Participants include: –Betsy Ankney, manager for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s winning 2016 campaign — Paul Maslin, Democratic pollster with FM3 Research –Mark
Following are a list of motions adopted by the Joint Finance Committee beginning May 1, and broken down by agency: Final Motion and Adoption of the Substitute Amendments https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170906JFCFinal.pdf Administration – Facilities https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170524JFC241.pdf Administration – General Agency Provisions https://www.w… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly is poised to take up the budget next week after the Joint Finance Committee put the final touches on its version of the two-year spending plan. The proposal, which cleared the committee on party lines 12-4,
Republicans put the final touches on their version of the state budget late Tuesday, as the Joint Finance Committee added provisions that would repeal the AMT, create new tax breaks for broadcasters and nix a series of tax cuts Gov. Scott Walker originally proposed. The amended budget cleared the committee
The committee voted 12-4 along party lines to approve the wrap-up motion that includes moving up a pay increase for state employees and requiring the UW System to start tracking teaching loads. Dems noted the wrap-up motion — normally called 999, but 421 this year — did not contain some
The committee approved the GOP tax package 12-3 along party lines. Sen. Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, was not in the room for the vote. JFC is now moving to the wrap-up motion…. Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, please contact schmies@wispolitics.com for subscription options on
The UW System Board of Regents would have to develop a plan to monitor teaching workloads of faculty and instructional staff under the wrap-up motion JFC Republicans released late this afternoon. The guv originally included the provision in his budget, but it was pulled as a non-fiscal item. The provision
Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee are proposing the elimination of the alternative minimum tax starting in 2019 while nixing a series of tax changes Gov. Scott Walker had originally proposed. The alternative minimum tax repeal would decrease revenues $1.75 million in this biennium and $7 million annually thereafter. Ahead
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee this afternoon was working through the final votes on the state budget, including a tax package that would create a new exemption to the personal property tax that businesses pay and eliminate the alternative minimum tax. The committee
The committee approved 12-4 along party lines a motion that includes a new exemption to the personal property tax with a price tag of $74.4 million annually. The personal property tax provision would kick in Jan. 1, 2018, and exempt machinery, tools and patterns not considered manufacturing property. The change
The Joint Finance Committee kicked of its final budget action Wednesday with a 12-4 party-line vote to revamp the special needs scholarship, which allows students with a disability to receive state money to attend private schools. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated the changes would add 250 students in 2018-19, doubling
GOP U.S. Sen. John McCain and his Dem colleague Sheldon Whitehouse are among the more than two dozen parties who filed briefs this week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find Wisconsin’s Assembly maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. McCain, R-Ariz., and Whitehouse, D-R.I., bemoaned what they say is an “influencer class”
A motion that would dial back some local governments’ regulations of quarries where the material is mined for transportation projects is drawing fire from WMC for picking “winners and losers” among the state’s industries. But Aggregate Producers of Wisconsin Executive Director Erin Longmire said the motion was a response to
Planned expansions of the Milwaukee streetcar would become much more difficult under the transportation motion that JFC signed off on last night, one critic says. Milwaukee’s streetcar, which local officials say will boost economic development downtown, has drawn the ire of Republican lawmakers who say people outside the city shouldn’t
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** September 14: Panel discussion on the state of politics and policy in DC and Wisconsin and how it will affect 2018 elections Join WisPolitics at UW-Milwaukee for lunch and a panel discussion on the state of politics and policy in DC and Wisconsin and how
