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Ron Johnson GOP senator: Tax reform more likely to come before ObamaCare repeal Ex-Obama cyber czar defends government rules for hacking tools Senators locked in turf battle over Russia probes MORE is predicting that a tax-cut bill is more likely to come before legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare this year. "The tax reform is an easier lift," Johnson told radio host John Catsimatidis in an interview that aired Sunday on AM 970 in New York.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison in March. Walker wants to make Wisconsin the first state in the country to require childless adults applying for Medicaid to undergo drug screening.
Gov. Scott Walker wants to make Wisconsin the first state in the country to require childless adults applying for Medicaid to undergo drug screening, a move that could serve as a national model. Walker's plan, which needs federal approval, comes as he prepares to run for a third term next year.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker discusses the creation of a new public policy leadership and research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Madison. The center will be named after former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson.
The Wisconsin Legislature's budget-writing committee is set to come together Monday to begin voting on the two-year, $76 billion spending plan. A K-12 school aid increase appears to be on solid ground, a University of Wisconsin tuition cut is in serious jeopardy while a solution to road funding remains elusive.
A Wisconsin man says he found Joseph Jakubowski camping on his land, and the two spoke for an hour before he called police and realized he was a fugitive. MILWAUKEE - Fearing a mass shooting, authorities chased nearly 800 leads in search of a Wisconsin man they believed had a cache of stolen firearms and had written of his desire to commit violent acts against the government.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to cut tuition at the University of Wisconsin and use taxpayer funds to pay for it is shaking up normal political alliances with some Democrats expressing support while skeptical fellow Republicans worry it could put the state on a path toward socialist Bernie Sanders' free college tuition plan. Republican governors across the nation have criticized universities over higher tuition and some, including Walker, have forced tuition freezes.
When advocates for a hate-crimes bill took their case to the Legislature last year, their cause was quickly overshadowed by a separate effort to expand the state's civil rights law to include LGBT protections. The latter measure, which ultimately failed, became known derisively as the "bathroom bill" with opponents who claimed, falsely, that it would allow predatory men to sneak into women's restrooms.
The Latest on the federal sentencing of Dylann Roof in the deaths of nine people at a South Carolina church : The Latest on the federal sentencing of Dylann Roof in the deaths of nine people at a South Carolina church : A school resource officer in North Carolina has been placed on leave after a brief video posted online shows him picking up and slamming a female high school student to the ground. A student who was slammed to the ground by a police officer at a North Carolina high school was trying to break up a fight involving her sister, said the 15-year-old who posted video of the incident.
Court records show a 27-year old woman in Fox Lake died of a gun shot wound to the head. Authorities say the body of Sesalie Dixon was found in a truck at a home at 100 We-Go Trail Sunday.
Nicole Kirby looks over results during a statewide presidential election recount Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Milwaukee. The first candidate-driven statewide recount of a presidential election in 16 years began Thursday in Wisconsin, a state that Donald Trump won by less than a percentage point over Hillary Clinton after polls long predicted a Clinton victory.
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president on the November 8 ballot, filed a request for a recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results shortly before the state's Friday deadline. But after Wisconsin's Elections Commission denied Stein's request that ballots be counted by hand, Stein's campaign filed a lawsuit demanding all ballots be manually counted, rather than by optical scanners.
Two weeks after a stunning election defeat, Wisconsin Democrats won an equally surprising legal victory Monday as a federal court struck down legislative maps drawn by Republicans in 2011. A panel of federal judges ruled 2-1 that the redistricting maps were "intended to burden the representational rights of Democratic voters throughout the [10-year] period by impeding their ability to translate their votes into legislative seats."
Federal judges struck down Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative districts as unconstitutional on Monday, marking a victory for minority Democrats that could force the Legislature to redraw the maps. The three-judge panel didn't order any immediate changes to district boundaries, instead saying they would give state attorneys and the voters who challenged the old maps 45 days to offer suggestions.
With the 2016 election, Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Wisconsin in nearly 30 years and Republicans took control of nearly two-thirds of the Legislature, including their largest majority in the Assembly since 1957, despite a roughly even split of votes between Democrats and Republicans in statewide races. On Monday, a federal court overturned Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative maps as an "unconstitutional gerrymander" that likely played a major factor in the party's disproportionate electoral success.
The unprecedented Trump victory led to a GOP wave in Wisconsin, with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson winning his re-election bid by even wider margins than Trump and state Republicans poised to expand their majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature. In a victory speech that was more mellow than his usual stump speech rhetoric, Trump struck a conciliatory tone as he told supporters that Democrat Hillary Clinton called him to concede.
A long campaign season that began more than a year ago is finally coming to a head in Wisconsin as voters prepare to make their choices for president, U.S. Senate and which party will control the Legislature. The biggest contest by far is the presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.