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GOP lawmakers grill Reilly over UW surplus

Tuesday?s hearing of the legislature?s Joint Committee on Employment relations was scheduled well ahead of the news late last week concerning the University of Wisconsin System?s $648 million budget surplus. The agenda was to include testimony from UW System President Kevin Reilly and UW Madison Chancellor David Ward, regarding a proposed personnel system. Given the furor surrounding the surplus though, that was clearly not going to happen.