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June 17, 2011

Wisconsin Senate Approves Public Spending Cuts 
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The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Senate has approved a new
budget imposing wide cuts on public spending. Democrats say the measure
will slash more than $1.8 billion in public spending and around $500
million in funding for the Medicaid healthcare program for the poor.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker is expected to sign the measure into law.
Protests, meanwhile, continue at the state Capitol in Madison in the
standoff over Walker's union-busting bill.

Protester: "Recalls are great, it's one form of direct action, I have no
problem with it. I really think we need to be taking a more pro-active
measure as citizens as a whole. We need to start reconsidering the
option of strikes, doing more to stop the proceedings that are happening
in that [state] House at the moment."



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