Gov. Jim Doyle is calling lawmakers into special session next week to take up a budget repair bill that would fix the state’s $650 million deficit.
But with just a week to go before the March 13 special session, exactly how Doyle and lawmakers plan to plug that hole remains unclear.
Aides to Doyle and top legislative leaders say the Democratic governor is still negotiating details of the package with Assembly Republicans and Senate Democrats.
Doyle has said he hopes to put together a plan that will win quick approval from the divided Legislature instead of repeating last summer’s partisan standoff in which passage of the budget was delayed by more than three months.