The Wisconsin Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee voted Tuesday to stand by its decision to reject Gov. Tony Evers' plan to accept federal money for Medicaid, turning down more than $1 billion from the federal government and $324 million wort of state savings.

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A Republican leader in the Wisconsin Senate says support is "unanimous" among GOP senators for guaranteeing that people with pre-existing health conditions have access to health insurance.

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A Republican leader in the state Senate says there aren't enough votes yet to pass a tax break bill designed to keep open a pair of Kimberly-Clark Corp. plants in northeast Wisconsin.

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The Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee took a detour on Thursday from Gov. Scott Walker's road-funding plan, directing more money toward local road projects amid criticism from Democrats who argued against spending anything more on a stretch of Interstate 94 running near the massive Foxconn Technology Group project.

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Two influential Republican senators on Wednesday were pronouncing dead a proposal the Assembly passed quickly to allow a Georgia mining company to destroy wetlands containing rare hardwoods in western Wisconsin.

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Republican lawmakers on Thursday introduced a plan to put the Interstate 94 east-west expansion project in Milwaukee back on track.

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Back in April, we congratulated the Legislature’s finance committee for responsibly purging all non-fiscal policy from Gov. Scott Walker’s state budget request. Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and other members of the Republican-controlled committee removed 83 ...

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Electronics giant Foxconn will build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin that's expected to create 13,000 jobs and an additional 10,000 construction jobs.

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Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to give up on $200 million in proposed income tax cuts and instead use the money to help pay for roads won approval from Assembly Republicans on Thursday, a breakthrough that could lead to the adoption of a state budget following a three-week impasse.

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There will be no changes at the head of the Wisconsin Legislature's powerful budget committee.

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