Wisconsin Republicans to Move Other Legislation
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 22nd, 2011 5:40 am by HL
Wisconsin Republicans to Move Other Legislation
With Wisconsin “braced for another week of protests and deadlock over a budget bill that would severely restrict public employees’ unions here,” the New York Times reports Republicans in the state Senate announced that the body would resume consideration of other matters.
“The move seemed intended to increase the discomfort of the Democratic state senators who have fled the state as a way of preventing a vote on the union legislation. Starting Tuesday, those senators, who are in Illinois, will have to watch from afar as Republicans continue the work of governing without them, taking up matters from the mundane to the controversial.”
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel notes Republicans may “force a vote soon on a bill that is abhorred by Democrats: requiring people to show an ID at the polls.”
A quorum of 20 votes is needed for lawmakers to take up fiscal matters, but just 17 votes on other matters. Republicans hold 19 senate seats.
Palin Show Received Public Funding
The company that produced Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the TLC show starring the former vice presidential nominee, is set to receive $1.2 million in state subsidies, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
The funding has led to criticism that then-Gov. Palin may have approved of tax credits for programs filmed in Alaska as a way of boosting her profile in the future. The subsidies under the law run until 2013.
