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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 Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee plans to reconvene this morning to finish its budget work after approving a GOP transportation package that calls for cutting 200 DOT jobs and
The Joint Finance approved the GOP transportation motion 12-4 along party lines and then recessed until 11 a.m. Wednesday. It will then reconvene to take up taxes and the remaining provisions in the budget, Co-chair John Nygren said. … Please
Joint Finance Dems torched the DOT’s transportation package Monday night, saying it was chockful of earmarks and falls well short of the long-term transportation fix Republicans have been promising for several years. Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, recounted GOP remarks on
The DOT would eliminate 200 jobs over the next two years, there would be a new fee on hybrid and electric cars, and many local regulations of quarries where material is mined for construction and transportation projects would be pre-empted
The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 along party lines to approve a GOP amendment to the Foxconn bill that would overhaul the appeal process for any lawsuits filed over the project. Dems slammed the GOP amendment, saying it would give
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — In addition to the challenge coins promoting the agency’s “Kicking Ass Every Day” motto, Attorney General Brad Schimel’s Department of Justice has also bought candy blood clots, pistol cases and custom fortune
The state Supreme Court would take jurisdiction over any appeal of a circuit court decision relating to the Foxconn project under an amendment Joint Finance Republicans proposed today. Under the proposal, any circuit court order vacating, enjoining, reviewing or otherwise
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
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee plans to reconvene this morning to finish its budget work after approving a GOP transportation package that calls for cutting 200 DOT jobs and pre-empting some local regulations of quarries used for road and
The Joint Finance approved the GOP transportation motion 12-4 along party lines and then recessed until 11 a.m. Wednesday. It will then reconvene to take up taxes and the remaining provisions in the budget, Co-chair John Nygren said. … Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have
Joint Finance Dems torched the DOT’s transportation package Monday night, saying it was chockful of earmarks and falls well short of the long-term transportation fix Republicans have been promising for several years. Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, recounted GOP remarks on past budgets hoping for a solution to the state’s transportation
The DOT would eliminate 200 jobs over the next two years, there would be a new fee on hybrid and electric cars, and many local regulations of quarries where material is mined for construction and transportation projects would be pre-empted under a budget motion Republicans unveiled late Monday. The motion
The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 along party lines to approve a GOP amendment to the Foxconn bill that would overhaul the appeal process for any lawsuits filed over the project. Dems slammed the GOP amendment, saying it would give Foxconn special treatment not available to Wisconsin-based companies and could
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — In addition to the challenge coins promoting the agency’s “Kicking Ass Every Day” motto, Attorney General Brad Schimel’s Department of Justice has also bought candy blood clots, pistol cases and custom fortune cookies including the message “The time is right to make
The state Supreme Court would take jurisdiction over any appeal of a circuit court decision relating to the Foxconn project under an amendment Joint Finance Republicans proposed today. Under the proposal, any circuit court order vacating, enjoining, reviewing or otherwise related to a decision by a state or local official,