This Committee is a blatant effort by a powerful lawmaker, Rep. Swearingen, with a livelihood challenged by changing customer preferences, to use the legislative process to suppress competition and regain market position.
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“The potential job losses are a result of United Steelworkers union bureaucrats failing to come to a better agreement with Kimberly Clark,” Kapenga said. “It is not the role of government to put taxpayer dollars at risk in the middle of disputes between businesses and unions.”
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A pay-to-stay incentives proposal for consumer goods giant Kimberly-Clark remains in play and, consequently, so does the possibility that lawmakers will be called back in for a special session
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Horse owners were stunned and outraged when the Senate failed to take up the bill this week.
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Saying the economy is strong, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and state Senate President Roger Roth (R-Appleton) issued the invitation on Thursday to Governor Scott Walker to give the State of the State address on January 24.
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Nine people, none of whom will ever vote for Roth, were able to get a television truck and a reporter to do a live report from the protest.
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Senate Republicans are ready to deal with the proposed Foxconn Technology Group deal, but finishing the budget remains a priority.
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Of course, there’s another party to these negotiations, state Senate Republicans. State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, told the Capital Times, “There’s no deal yet, that’s for sure.”
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