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Senate Democrats on Monday night were prepared to drop from the health reform bill a plan to expand Medicare coverage after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he could not support it — a move that could clear the way for passage before Christmas but would infuriate the party's liberals, who feel as if the moderate Lieberman thwarted them once again.
After making an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2008, Dan Mielke is determined to run again next year in an effort to unseat the longtime Democratic incumbent in Wisconsin’s 7th District, David Obey.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- One of three Democrats crossing party lines to vote against the $447 billion spending bill awaiting President Barack Obama's signature is urging a veto.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., refers to our current system for financing election campaigns as “legalized bribery.”
In the transition to privatize Milwaukee County Courthouse cleaning services, some courthouse bathrooms won't be cleaned until the new year.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett would have more power over the Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent and budget than nearly any other U.S. mayor holds over a big-city school system, under a bill the Legislature is to consider Wednesday.
They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat, Hershey and his chocolate bar. And at Rep. Ron Paul , the 2008 presidential candidate who had the zany idea — as many laughing people thought — that the Federal Reserve system could become a sizzling political issue. Ben Bernanke , chairman of the Fed, who does not laugh promiscuously, knows that it is no laughing matter that Paul has 317 co-sponsors ...
Organizers from a national group of educators are campaigning to organize faculty and other academic staff across the University of Wisconsin System for collective bargaining.
Of all the changes Barack Obama is trying to bring about, there is one that would have stunned and dismayed his most ardent supporters, had they foreseen it during the presidential campaign.
TOMAH - John Medinger, U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl 's regionalrepresentative for western Wisconsin, will meet with constituentsin Tomah from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday in the council chamber of theTomah City Hall, 819 Superior Ave. No appointment is necessary.Medinger also can be contacted at Kohl's regional office at 205Fifth Ave. S., room 216, in La Crosse, or at (608) 796-0045.