The leader in the Democrat-led state Senate pushed Monday to put controversial measures involving a tax on oil companies and negligence lawsuits back into the state budget, even as several key Democrats said any bill with those provisions in it was doomed.
“I donâ??t know how much clearer I can be in that I think it would be extremely difficult for the budget to move forward with this in it,” said Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Waunakee, speaking of the changes to negligence lawsuits. “I donâ??t know how a budget would pass with this in it.”