Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly late this afternoon was preparing to debate a GOP effort to expand coverage of the state’s background check system as part of a $100 million school safety package. If the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Majority Leader Jim Steineke raised the prospect the Assembly could make changes tomorrow to the school safety package and other bills that cleared the Senate, a move that would require the other

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — GOP legislative leaders today made progress on saving legislation to replace Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison, create a $100-per-child tax credit and implement school safety measures, reviving proposals that stalled amid Republican bickering.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The Assembly Education Committee is holding a public hearing on the six school safety bills tomorrow morning as the full chamber prepares to take them up in special session later this week.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The top Republicans in the Assembly and Senate have staked out different procedural plans for the guv’s school safety proposals, leaving their fate up in the air. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A Senate committee has approved along party lines a significantly pared-back plan that would close Lincoln Hills by Jan. 1, 2021, but strip nearly all funding to build new juvenile facilities. The

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker’s chief of staff Rich Zipperer will start his new role at the Public Service Commission March 26. Meanwhile, the guv’s office announced this afternoon Eric Schutt will return as

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker continued to talk with top Trump administration officials about Foxconn after announcing the state’s deal with the Taiwanese tech company, records show. The guv’s calendars shows at least 28

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Dem guv candidate Kathleen Vinehout today said she’d support universal background checks for all gun sales. These checks, she added, would be applicable to federally-licensed dealers as well as gun sales among

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said today a youth prisons bill that cleared the Assembly unanimously will need changes in order to pass the state Senate. Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, also told WisPolitics.com his members

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker plans to introduce a comprehensive school safety package by March 20. The guv announced late last week he would seek to pass legislation addressing school safety after a school

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — President Trump is still underwater, voters remain split on Gov. Scott Walker’s job approval and the challengers in both the guv and U.S. Senate fields are largely unknown at this point, according

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Foxconn considered at least 13 sites across the state before settling on the Village of Mount Pleasant, WEDC records show. While the Taiwan-based company officially announced in October it was choosing the

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker and Dem legislative leaders today traded barbs on whether road funding tied to a planned Foxconn plant in southeastern Wisconsin will pull money from other projects around the state.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Mike Haas said he decided to drop his claim the Elections Commission administrator’s job to spare the agency a distraction during an election year. Meanwhile, the Ethics Commission voted 4-2 today to