Committee on Senate Organization 9:00 AM 211 South State Capitol Executive Session The Committee on Senate Organization will vote by paper ballot to approve or deny scheduling the Regular Session Calendar for Tuesday, February 21, 2012. The committee may take other actions concerning the matters proposed for the calendar. Deadline for responding: 12:00 p.m. on […]
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Geologists Rock the House With Stunning Testimony at Mining Hearing
With nearly two dozen state troopers stationed in and outside the Joint Finance Committee hearing on Friday, overflowing crowds lined up to testify overwhelmingly against the latest version of a new mining bill. Wednesday, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald (R) announced his decision to unexpectedly and unilaterally dismantle the Senate Committee on Mining, pulling the plug […]
ACTION ALERT: If you can’t make mining hearing today 10 AM Room 412E Call your legislator
February 17, 2012 by Barbara With On February 17, 2011, 14 Wisconsin Senate Democrats fled to Illinois after seeing Scott Walker’s ALEC-driven budget repair bill. Insider sources tell us it was more than likely Mike Ellis who tipped off Jon Erpenbach that they were going to lock them into the Senate chambers and force them […]
Proposed Mining Bill Proof That Republicans Are Not Smarter Than Wisconsin Fourth-Graders
February 17, 2012 by WCMC Madison, WI – When fourth grade students travel from across the state to take a tour of their State Capitol, they possess a basic knowledge that Republican legislators do not. As the following press release shows, not all rocks are the same. Some attract magnets while others do not. Yet […]
Friday, February 17
Select Committee on Mining Jobs 10:00 AM UW-Platteville Ullsvik Hall, Harry and Laura Nohr Gallery 1 University Plaza Platteville, WI Public Hearing Assembly Bill 426 Relating to: regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. By Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business. LRB 4035/P1 Relating to: regulation of […]
Thursday, February 16
Committee on Colleges and Universities 8:30 AM 415 Northwest State Capitol Public Hearing Assembly Bill 473 Relating to: delaying the restrictions on participation by the University of Wisconsin System in selling or providing telecommunications services. By Representatives Wynn, Nass, Doyle, Tranel, Bernier, Bies, Spanbauer, Kaufert, C. Taylor, Petrowski, Berceau, Marklein, Molepske Jr, Ripp and Danou; […]
Wednesday, February 15
Committees on Energy, Biotechnology, and Consumer Protection; Rural Economic Development and Rural Affairs; and Agriculture 8:30 AM 412 East State Capitol Informational Hearing A symposium on the subject of biogas, a subject pertinent to the jurisdiction of the Assembly Committee on Rural Economic Development and Rural Affairs will be held on Wednesday, February 15, at […]
Mass Chaos
February 14, 2012 by Lady Forward Ardis Cerny, Chair of Community Activism for Republican Women of Waukesha County (RWWC), testified at the Assembly Committee on Election and Campaign Reforms hearing on February 6, 2012. On the subject of “double voting,” Cerny stated: “I predict that when citizens find out that they can vote a second […]
Tuesday, February 14
Committee on Economic Development and Veterans and Military Affairs 9:00 AM 330 Southwest State Capitol Public Hearing Senate Bill 440 Relating to: increasing the allowable number of project plan amendments, and lengthening the time during which tax increments may be allocated and expenditures for project costs may be made, for Tax Incremental District Number 3 […]
Wisconsin Uprising Anniversary Week of Action Schedule
February 2, 2012 Anniversary Week of Action to Celebrate the Wisconsin Uprising February 11th-19th, 2012 One Year Longer, One Year Stronger! Why an Anniversary Week of Action? To remember and honor the unprecedented protests of February and March of 2011, when the people of Wisconsin rediscovered the power of collective action. To reconvene the empowered […]
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