Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Lawmakers today sparred on a proposal to allow in-person absentee ballots to be tabulated immediately rather than on Election Day. The measure, which passed the Assembly but stalled in the Senate last session, was one of several to receive a joint hearing

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee late this afternoon was debating a GOP motion to add another two years to the freeze on tuition for in-state undergraduates at the UW System. But the GOP motion would nix Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to backfill that

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee approved putting an additional $500 million into K-12 education over the next two years as Dems slammed the plan as embarrassingly inadequate, particularly on special education. The GOP plan, approved along party lines, included an additional

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Republicans are headed in a similar direction after his Assembly colleagues unveiled a $500 million plan for K-12 education. But Dem members of the Joint Finance Committee slammed the proposal as inadequate because it was

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan today called on fellow members of Congress to open impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. The Town of Vermont Dem cited Trump’s resistance to complying with Congressional subpoenas as evidence that the president and his associates are engaging

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders are considering splitting the budget into two bills — one that would outline spending and the other containing policy — in an attempt to get around the guv’s partial veto authority. Gov. Tony Evers has the most powerful partial

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Board members for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. have begun visiting the Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant in recent days, with trips continuing into next week. The trips mark the first time they’re visiting the site as board members, WEDC spokesman David

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Flanked by lawmakers, law enforcement officials and advocates, AG Josh Kaul and Gov. Tony Evers announced the state has today filed a lawsuit alleging subsidiaries of Purdue Pharma fueled the opioid epidemic by employing “deceptive” marketing and sales techniques. Wisconsin is one

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Flush with an unexpected boost of $753 million, Gov. Tony Evers today said he will use some of the money to pay down debt while calling on lawmakers to invest more in worker training and stash much of it away in the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Vice President Pence will visit an industrial supplier and distributor in Eau Claire on Thursday to tout the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact the White House is trying to get through Congress. It will be Pence’s first visit to Wisconsin since he stumped for

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The state GOP overpaid for services in 2018 and was overly reliant on consultants as it essentially outsourced management of the party to Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, according to a postmortem it conducted on last year’s losses. The 15-page report — which

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — In the midst of a heated gubernatorial campaign, Tony Evers made virtually no changes to his finances, according to investment disclosures filed with the state Ethics Commission. Evers’ most recent Statement of Economic Interest — which was filed three weeks after his

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Republicans today took aim at Gov. Tony Evers and Department of Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr over what they labeled as a “fundamentally unfair” program to boost pay for correctional officers at six maximum-security facilities to address critical staff shortages. “There wasn’t

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Republicans today touted a slate of abortion-related bills they argued would boost transparency, bar discrimination, and expand protections for fetuses and babies. But Dems countered the legislation would ultimately limit options for women, as they championed Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to boost

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The first motion the Joint Finance Committee plans to take up Thursday would result in the general fund seeing $1.4 billion less over the next two years than what Gov. Tony Evers proposed, according to an analysis by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers said today he’s not giving up on his proposal to expand Medicaid despite JFC Republicans’ plan to pull it from the budget, but he stopped short of saying he would veto a budget that didn’t include it. Meanwhile, Assembly

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee’s first actions on Gov. Tony Evers’ budget May 9 will be to pull out a host of his priorities, from expanding Medicaid to allowing illegal immigrants to get driver licenses. Typically, the JFC co-chairs have the Legislative Fiscal

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers today charged the president’s suggestion that Wisconsin doctors “are executing babies is just a blasphemy” and called a GOP bill to require care for those who survive an abortion “nothing more than a distraction” from other priorities. But one

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos added two new staffers last month, filling the last of the 14 positions he put under his authority for the session. The additions of Julie Lund and Ashley Luke have pushed Vos’ payroll to more than $975,000 for

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Joint Finance Committee Co-Chairs Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. John Nygren today disagreed on whether the state’s budget panel will take up the vaping products tax Gov. Tony Evers proposed. Speaking at a WisPolitics.com luncheon in Madison, Darling said the new tax