{"id":5289,"date":"2013-05-29T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2013-05-29T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:17:55","slug":"joint-finance-committee-to-meet-wednesday-and-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5289","title":{"rendered":"Joint Finance Committee to Meet Wednesday and Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Finance Committee will meet today and tomorrow to vote on motions relating to Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/proposals\/ab40\">2013-15 biennial budget proposal<\/a>. Budget papers for Wednesday are <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/publications\/budget\/2013-15%20Budget\/Pages\/May-29.aspx\">here<\/a> and Thursday&#8217;s papers are <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lfb\/publications\/budget\/2013-15%20Budget\/Pages\/May-30.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion of public school vouchers and K-12 education is the primary topic of discussion today. Other topics on the agenda include the Departments of Tourism and Natural Resources; sales and excise taxes; health services; and the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Circuit Court. The committee may also consider pending motions relating to the Department of Employee Trust Funds.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will discuss the Department of Children&#8217;s and Families, the State Building Commission and building program, and the Medical College of Wisconsin on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Update, 5\/29\/13, 11:15 am: The co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee announced they will not take up voucher expansion and increased K-12 funding today, saying a compromise has not been reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Finance Committee will meet today and tomorrow to vote on motions relating to Governor Scott Walker&#8217;s 2013-15 biennial budget proposal. Budget papers for Wednesday are here and Thursday&#8217;s papers are here. The expansion of public school vouchers and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=5289\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-5289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-2013-15-state-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}