Republican lawmakers on Wednesday began seeking sponsors for about a dozen transportation-related bills that could include an alternative to a gas-tax increase and allow for the use of the design-build system on highway projects.

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Republican legislative leaders are thinking about splitting the state budget into two bills.

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Republican leadership in the state Legislature plan to intervene in a legal challenge of the state's well-known Act 10 law to contest arguments made by two labor unions that argue the law curtailing collective bargaining also limits their free-speech rights.

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Republicans on the Legislature's budget-writing committee planned on Thursday to set aside more money than Gov. Tony Evers had initially proposed for workforce development and Wisconsin technical colleges.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments on Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging restrictions Republican lawmakers placed on Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul's powers during a lame-duck legislative session last year.

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The Legislature's budget-writing committee is scheduled to consider Gov. Tony Evers' proposal to authorize more borrowing for clean-water projects.

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An internal review of the Wisconsin Republican Party after the 2018 election found that it had been "recklessly reliant" on high-paid consultants to the detriment of grassroots supporters.

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The actual cost of building new county-run juvenile centers to replace Wisconsin's scandal-plagued prison in Irma is expected to far outstrip previous estimates, giving Milwaukee County officials fodder for criticism at a meeting held on Monday in Madison.

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Republicans plan to kill some of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ biggest proposals in the first vote taken this year by the state’s budget-writing committee, including plans to set aside $40 million to replace lead pipes, repeal the state’s right-to-work laws and reinstate prevailing-wage laws.

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Gov. Tony Evers and Foxconn Technology Group officials are talking about making changes to a contract signed in 2017, when everyone involved though the company would be building display-screen factory that would be bigger than the one now proposed.

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