GOP lawmakers want to override a veto. Evers wants lawmakers to give more funding for schools. Neither plan is likely to happen.

MADISON - Assembly Republicans are convening lawmakers Tuesday to try to overturn Gov. Tony Evers' veto of legislation that would have eliminated additional unemployment benefits for Wisconsinites who lost work during the coronavirus pandemic.

At the same time, Evers is calling on lawmakers to use their time in the state Capitol to take up a plan that would provide hundreds of millions to schools. 

Neither plan has much of a chance of being successful. 

Republicans have repeatedly rejected Evers' calls for special legislative sessions to address issues or take up bills he has called for and there aren't enough Republicans in the Assembly to pull off an override of Evers' veto.

While neither move is likely to be successful, the attempts will give Democrats and Republicans fodder for the 2022 campaigns which include Evers' re-election race. 

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Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce urged members Monday to contact lawmakers to push support for the override attempt, which would require two-thirds of the lawmakers who convene in the state Capitol on Tuesday. 

Lawmakers plan to take up the override of just the legislation related to pandemic benefits, according to Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke's office. 

Republicans control the Assembly 61-38, which falls short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a governor's veto but that proportion is based on how many lawmakers show up Tuesday.

Republican Rep. Clint Moses said at the Conservative Political Education Conference in Hudson earlier this month that the Republican legislative campaign committees planned to pay to fly Republican legislators back to Madison for a veto override, suggesting the notice could be short. 

"We are going to plan a veto override, not sure when that's going to be and if I told you, they'd probably kill me," he said. 

Moses said the committees would "fly in people from wherever they may be on vacation." 

"I wasn't going to go anywhere. I'll be hanging out at the Dunn County Fair and then down at the State Fair showing cattle with my family. But now I kind of want to go to Hawaii or something so that our caucus gets to pay me and fly me back for a day," Moses joked. "It's that important."

The Assembly and Senate are scheduled to be on summer recess until September after they finished their work on the state budget in late June. 

Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz said that Democrats will "adjust and we'll be there." 

"We've always been able to uphold the governor's veto and we'll be able to do it again," Hintz said. 

The federal program that provides enhanced benefits is set to expire in September but Republican lawmakers introduced legislation in May, arguing it should be gone sooner to help business owners who need more workers during the summer. 

Evers has argued Republicans could help draw more workers to the state if they invested in education, transit, health care or child care.

Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Congress passed legislation to pay people an extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits because hundreds of thousands were thrown out of work in each state. Congress later reduced the amount of the additional payments to $300 a week. 

The arrangement increases the maximum weekly amount an unemployed worker in Wisconsin can receive from $370 to $670. The federal government pays for all of the cost of the additional benefits, which are set to run through Labor Day.

The bill vetoed in June also would prohibit the Department of Workforce Development from waiving the work search requirement for reasons related to COVID-19.

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