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State Budget Faces Uncertainty in the Senate
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 15, 2017
From WisPolitics.com …
The state Senate is scheduled to come in this morning to vote on the biennial budget, though it’s unclear whether Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has enough GOP votes to pass it.
Fitzgerald said this week he doesn’t have 17 votes to pass the budget, with Sen. David Craig, R-Big Bend, expected to vote no and three other conservative senators demanding several changes.
Those three senators — Chris Kapenga, Steve Nass or Duey Stroebel — told WisPolitics.com yesterday they’ll only vote for the budget if it meets some of their demands.
Those include: raising the income limit to 300 percent of the federal poverty limit for the statewide choice program, moving up the repeal of the prevailing wage on state projects, and prohibiting the UW System from spending some $4 million on diversity, sensitivity and cultural fluency training.
See Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Coverage
See Wisconsin Public Radio Coverage
See Wisconsin Radio Network coverage in which Speaker Vos calls Republican holdout senators’ list of demands a “ransom list”.
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