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WisPolitics Budget Blog: Committee adjourns
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. The committee is expected to be back on Wednesday. Posted @ 9:46 PM Permalink. Back to Budget Blog main page. See newer blog items. See older blog items. Budget Blog site feed. Wispolitics.com Social News. Updates on the Wisconsin state budget, from the first JFC meetings through the governor's final vetoes. Middot; Budget Blog site feed. Middot; Budget Blog on Twitter. Middot; Department of Administration. Middot; Department of Revenue. Middot; Joint Finance Committee. Middot; Ap...
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WisPolitics Budget Blog: Highlights of MA package
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Highlights of MA package. Here are some highlights of the MA omnibus motion, which preserves SeniorCare as is:. The fiscal impact increases GPR spending by $22.1 million, FED by $37.3 million, PR $139.1 million and SEG $41.5 million. Signing off on the guv's recommendation for disproportionate share hospital payments, which bump up Medicaid reimbursement rates for hospitals that serve a large number of Medicaid payments. Posted @ 4:13 PM Permalink. Back to Budget Blog main page.
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WisPolitics Budget Blog: Nygren: SeniorCare will be left alone, lawmakers to get more oversight of WEDC
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Nygren: SeniorCare will be left alone, lawmakers to get more oversight of WEDC. Co-chair John Nygren says the committee today will approve fully funding SeniorCare as is with no changes to the popular prescription drug program. Republicans had talked about possibly increasing the enrollment fee, for example, as an alternative to Gov. Scott Walker's plan to require enrollees to apply for the federal program and enroll if eligible. Sen Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, praised the move.
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WisPolitics Budget Blog: We're back
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Sen Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, is in the chair today. Posted @ 4:04 PM Permalink. Back to Budget Blog main page. See newer blog items. See older blog items. Budget Blog site feed. Wispolitics.com Social News. Updates on the Wisconsin state budget, from the first JFC meetings through the governor's final vetoes. Middot; Budget Blog site feed. Middot; Budget Blog on Twitter. Middot; Department of Administration. Middot; Department of Revenue. Middot; Joint Finance Committee.
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WisPolitics Budget Blog: Hintz questions budget priorities
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. Hintz questions budget priorities. Rep Gordon Hintz is asking why the GOP would turn down $360 million in federal Medicaid money when it is available and would loosen the state's tight budget. Not taking the money is a budget priority," the Oshkosh Dem said, "and that's something I don't understand.". I think it would be a failure of duty," he said, "on the part of this committee.". Posted @ 7:39 PM Permalink. Back to Budget Blog main page. See newer blog items. Middot; Budget Blo...
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WisPolitics Budget Blog: GOP Medicaid omnibus passes 12-4
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. GOP Medicaid omnibus passes 12-4. The committee voted 12-4 to approve the GOPâ s Medicaid plan as the two sides continued to debate whether the state should accept federal money to expand BadgerCare under the Affordable Care Act. Instead, he said Republicans were obsessed with having a soundbite that they rejected Obamacare. Â That is a $360 million soundbite,â Hintz said. Co-chair Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, said the two sides werenâ t that far apart on Medical Assistance....
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WisPolitics Budget Blog: On to MA motion
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. On to MA motion. The Dems now are pushing a competing motion calling for full expansion of Medicaid. Posted @ 7:01 PM Permalink. Back to Budget Blog main page. See newer blog items. See older blog items. Budget Blog site feed. Wispolitics.com Social News. Updates on the Wisconsin state budget, from the first JFC meetings through the governor's final vetoes. Middot; Budget Blog site feed. Middot; Budget Blog on Twitter. Middot; Department of Administration. Middot; Sheila Harsdorf.
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Traveling with Tommy: Tommy courts farmers
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Along with Thompson's gift of gab is an uncanny ability to pick farmers out of a crowd, regardless of what they're wearing. When he spots a likely farmer Thompson walks up and usually asks: "Are you a farmer? The answer is invariably yes. Farmer status confirmed, Thompson asks them what they raise and points out he also has a farm on which he says he raises Belted Galloway cows. He describes them as "oreo cows," because they are black on both ends with a white stripe in the middle. BLOG-SPECIFIC INFO# # #.
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Traveling with Tommy: Tommy arrives in Denmark for Lee County GOP fundraiser
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Tommy arrives in Denmark for Lee County GOP fundraiser. Thompson hopped off the Winnebago at the Lee County GOP Fundraiser, now wearing a navy blue suit, and headed straight for the waiting television camera from WGEM. Thompson briefly laid out his views on Iraq, immigration and healt hcare. Thompson again pointed out he's against amnesty, as he'd been doing all day since dogged by a mailer from the Tancredo. Campaign that came out this week suggesting he supported it. While Thompson and Tancredo. Back t...
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Traveling with Tommy: Tommy in Iowa: Going for Broke
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Tommy in Iowa: Going for Broke. Tommy Thompson, in a new WisPolitics.com interview, says he's going "for broke' to get first or second in the GOP straw poll in Ames, Iowa next weekend and that Rudy Giuliani and John McCain aren't participating because "they knew they were going to get beaten.'. Thompson also says the only candidate who's nearly as experienced as him to be president is Bill Richardson on the Dem side. THOMPSON INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: The spat with Tancredo and other Tommy stories. A campaig...
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