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Assembly Speaker-elect Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, appointed five additional Republican assembly members to the Joint Finance Committee Wednesday.
Incoming state Assembly speaker Jeff Fitzgerald appointed state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, to co-chair the Joint Finance Committee Tuesday.
Last Thursday, Gov. Jim Doyle sent out an executive order clarifying an existing statute on health insurance to young adults. This would allow citizens in their 20's to be covered under their parents' health-care plan starting January 1 next year. Any Wisconsin resident would be eligible if you are between 17 and 27 years of age, unmarried, and either not eligible for health coverage through your employer or your premium contribution is more than the amount your parents would pay to add you to their plan. Currently, only childless full-time students can stay in their parents plan till the age of 25. But with the passage of this new policy, potentially 100,000 young adults in Wisconsin could benefit.
Members of the Joint Finance Committee have their work cut out for them as they spend the coming weeks fine-tuning the 2009-'11 executive budget, which now must deal with a deficit likely more than $6 billion.
The Joint Committee on Finance held its first executive session at the state Capitol Thursday to begin deliberations on Gov. Jim Doyle's proposed budget.
In a memo released Tuesday, Joint Finance Committee co-chairs state Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, and state Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison identified 45 nonfiscal items they plan to pull from the 2009-'11 state budget, but did not remove the statewide smoking ban or domestic-partner benefits from the budget.
UW System leaders spoke to the legislative Joint Committee on Finance last week about Gov. Doyle's 2009-'11 budget proposal and their plans to manage state funding over the next two years.
Governor Jim Doyle's inclusion of tax increases and non-fiscal related policies in the budget introduced Tuesday is drawing criticism from Republican lawmakers.
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wednesday a stimulus package he hopes will decrease the state budget deficit and put Wisconsin residents to work improving infrastructure.
The economic-stimulus bill compromise reached in Congress Wednesday has a lower price tag than previous forms of the bill, which will mean less money allocated to Wisconsin.
The state Assembly passed its first two bills Tuesday, which aim to keep more jobs and taxpayer money in Wisconsin.
Two politicians believe university administrators should respond to a 'higher calling' rather than a higher paycheck in serving the University. State Reps. Robin Vos, R-Caledonia, and Stephen Nass, R-Whitewater, have introduced two separate bills that suggest capping state-funded administrative salaries.
State legislators presented a bill that would amend Wisconsin's electronic voting system to the Committee on Campaigns and Elections Thursday.
WHITEWATER, Wis.--Amid fervent demonstrations both supporting and condemning UW-Whitewater's decision to allow Ward Churchill to speak Tuesday, the University of Colorado-Boulder professor of ethnic studies vigorously defended his controversial paper that compared some of the victims of Sept. 11 to Nazis.
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