The Wisconsin Assembly approved bills on Thursday that would change Wisconsin Department of Transportation policies to set new limits on single-bid contracts and sanction the design-build delivery method on road projects.

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A Republican Wisconsin state senator says he will vote against the state budget proposal written by his fellow Republicans, leaving the GOP with only one vote to spare in the Senate.

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Four bills pitched as reform measures for a state transportation department set to receive a funding increase advanced through an Assembly committee on Thursday.

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Wisconsin Republicans have rewritten Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' state budget in the past few weeks, pushing it through the Joint Finance Committee they control last week to set up floor votes in the full Legislature.

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The Legislature's Republican-controlled finance committee finished revising Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' state budget Thursday, wrapping up its work by pasting a $321 million income tax cut plan into the document.

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To most people, the difference between a "fee" and a "tax" is semantics. You wind up paying for government services either way. Yet Republicans who control the statehouse are acting like fees are just fine, while taxes are terrible.

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The Legislature's 16-member budget could decide on its own to impose fees of any amount on Wisconsin drivers to pay for roads under a provision the panel has approved.

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Wisconsin Republicans scrapped Gov. Tony Evers’ transportation budget Thursday and replaced it with a plan that would pay for road work using a combination of title- and registration-fee increases, an infusion of general tax dollars and new borrowing. The proposal also would allow the design-build delivery system to be tested out and make various other far-reaching changes to transportation policy.

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Wisconsin Republicans are eyeing a $10 increase in the state's $75 vehicle-registration fee as part of a mix of ways to pay for roads in the state without raising the gas tax, Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said on Wednesday.

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With no deal in sight on how to pay for transportation projects, Republican senators on Wednesday proposed tapping $133 million in budget reserves to pay for repairs to county and town roads.

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