Just two years after the Democrats in Wisconsin took the majority in both chambers, the Republican tide turned the tables.

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Just two years after the Democrats in Wisconsin took the majority in both chambers, the Republican tide turned the tables. Now two brothers, Scott "Big Fitz" Fitzgerald and his brother Jeff Fitzgerald, whom Scott recruited for the Legislature in 2000, are the new Senate majority leader and speaker of the Assembly. The two leaders are facing a high unemployment rate and a looming budget deficit of about $3 billion. Nevertheless, the brothers predict a new era of cooperation between the two chambers. "There...