While this budget was tight, prudent fiscal budgeting allowed us to hold the line on taxes and reduce borrowing.
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The budget now goes to Walker for his signature, which some are saying will happen before the governor announces his bid for the GOP presidential nomination, which is expected to happen on Monday.
The legislature and Walker must sign off on the measure because it becomes law. Walker also ducked reporters’ questions about his role on Saturday. The budget committee last week proposed changing the makeup of a panel that oversees the Wisconsin Retirement System so it would include only state lawmakers and not others, including a member of the public, as it does now. During debate that began shortly after noon Wednesday and ended at 12:40 a.m. Thursday, Assembly Republicans rejected all Democratic amendments, which would have done such things as increased funding for K-12 schools and the University of Wisconsin and undone numerous other portions of the Republican plan. He says it also no new state income or sales taxes and eliminates the local prevailing wage requirements for government construction projects.
-Revamping Family Care and IRIS, programs created to keep the elderly and disabled out of nursing homes. Lawmakers have since altered the program, but disability advocates remain opposed to the changes. The state provided $2.28 billion annually over the last budget to the UW.
“Our intent with these changes was to encourage a deliberative process with state agencies in developing policy and legislation”, Patrick said.
The state Assembly selected as 52overvallen46 throughout the amount, on a daily basis when state Senate given approval the paying bundle. He said he had discussions with Walker’s staff about the number of record requests the governor’s office receives.
“Our budget priorities are simple, and they have not changed”.
“I don’t believe it’s right to have people’s personal information and personal tragedies to end up in the media”, he said.
“If we think it’s necessary to provide some additional operating room for people to prepare comments on drafts of policy, I think it needs to be done through a deliberative legislative process, with hearings and public input”, Rick Esenberg, president of conservative/libertarian Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.
“When the administration attempted this exemption this spring, it was really an unprecedented attempt to hide decisionmaking documents about important issues in the budget. And if so, why?” Attorney General Brad Schimel has scheduled for late July a summit to discuss open records issues. That suit has been consolidated with the legal challenge filed by Jud and Katy Lounsbury and is pending in Dane County Circuit Court.
Walker presented his budget proposal on February 3rd. But taxpayers are his priority, Walker said. This budget seems to have one goal, to pad the Governors ultra-conservative credentials heading into a crowded Republican primary field for the presidency, while forsaking the needs and values of our great state.
The issue is not over.
Walker’s office already operated as if the proposed changes to the open records law were made, according to the Journal Sentinel.
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Lueders said the state shouldn’t restrict public access to information. As recently as December, he called right-to-work a “distraction”.
