The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature voted Wednesday to eliminate a $300-a-week federal bonus for unemployed people, a measure that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has made clear he's likely to veto.

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Wisconsin should get tougher on unemployed people who apply for jobs to meet work-search requirements but then skip the interview, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Wednesday as he advocated for eliminating a $300 a week additional payment to the unemployed.

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One of Wisconsin's top Republican lawmakers said Wednesday he is hiring retired police officers to investigate the presidential election won by President Joe Biden in the battleground state.

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Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday called a special session for the Legislature to offer Medicaid to more people in Wisconsin, promising to use $850 million in federal money that would come to the state to pay for an array of economic development projects throughout the state.

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Republicans are moving to reinstate a requirement that unemployment people in Wisconsin search for work in order to qualify for benefits while they don't have a job.

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Wisconsin state lawmakers claimed more than $555,000 in daily expense reimbursements in 2020 even though they never convened for a floor session over the last eight months of a year marked by the coronavirus pandemic, records released Tuesday show.

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The leader of Democrats in the Wisconsin Senate said Wednesday that county voters who reject raising local sales taxes "aren't smart," a comment she stood by during the panel discussion but later called a "poor choice of words."

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The Wisconsin Assembly plans to send the question of whether the state's mask mandate should be repealed back to the state Senate, which voted last week to end the requirement.

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The Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are considering ending the statewide mask mandate designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus and could do so by passing a resolution as soon as next week.

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The Wisconsin Assembly Democratic leader on Thursday called for four Republican lawmakers to be removed from an elections committee for their decision to sign a letter asking Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the presidential election results.

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