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Durbin Discusses Illinois Agricultural Priorities With Xochitl Torres Small, Biden Nominee For USDA Deputy Secretary

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 9, 2023

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today met with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres Small, who has been nominated to serve as USDA Deputy Secretary.

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Duckworth, Durbin Help Re-Introduce Bill to Get Families the Child Care and Pre-K They Need

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 9, 2023

. U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) last week joined U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Representative Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA-03) in reintroducing the Child Care for Working Families Act, comprehensive legislation to tackle the child care crisis and help ensure families across America can find and afford the high-quality child care they need.

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Attorney General Raoul Announces Distribution Of Settlement Funds To Millions Of Americans Deceived By Turbotax Owner Intuit

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 9, 2023

Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced Illinois consumers deceived into paying for tax services that were available for free will soon begin receiving settlement checks from a nationwide multistate settlement with TurboTax owner Intuit Inc. (Intuit).

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Gov. Pritzker Announces Ten Appointments to Boards and Commissions

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 9, 2023

James Connolly will continue to serve as a Member of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.* Connolly has a long history working in organized labor. He currently serves as the Business Manager for the Chicago Laborers' District Council, where he is responsible for the delegates of all local labor bodies the District Council is affiliated.

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Durbin Honors Illinois National Guard As It Marks 300th Anniversary

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 8, 2023

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor commemorating the Illinois National Guard’s 300th anniversary.

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Duckworth, Durbin Join Colleagues to Press FDA For Timely Implementation of Ban on Menthol Cigarettes, Flavored Cigars

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 8, 2023

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and 18 of their colleagues in sending a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf, urging the FDA to promptly finalize its April 28, 2022 announced proposed rules to end the sale of menthol flavor in cigarettes and all flavors in cigars.

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Gov. Pritzker Encourages Illinois Medicaid Customers to Complete Renewals to Ensure Continued Coverage as Federal Pandemic-era Policies End

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic policy of pausing annual Medicaid renewals for customers comes to an end, the Pritzker administration is committed to protect coverage for eligible Illinois Medicaid customers, as annual eligibility verifications, or redeterminations, resume in Illinois. The first week of May is a critical time, as the first round of customers to go through the resumed renewal process will be receiving time-sensitive redetermination notices in the mail.

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Attorney General Raoul Applauds Passage Of Bill To Protect Consumers From Utility Disconnections

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 8, 2023

Attorney General Kwame Raoul today applauded the General Assembly’s passage, with a bi-partisan vote in the Senate, of his legislation to protect vulnerable residents from gas or electric utility service disconnections for nonpayment of bills when temperatures are 90 F or above, or when the National Weather Service issues an excessive heat watch, heat advisory or excessive heat warning.

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Durbin Reflects On Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing On The Devastating Fallout Since The Supreme Court Overruled Roe V. Wade

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 7, 2023

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor on the state of reproductive rights in America and steps he’s taking to shine a light on the serious threats to abortion rights nationwide, including holding last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the issue.

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Duckworth Introduces Legislation to Improve Energy Security for Forces Overseas, Enhance Military Readiness and Safety of Troops

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 7, 2023

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee and the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation that would foster collaboration with allies and partners to improve operational energy capabilities for U.S. troops as well as partner country military forces, helping increase military readiness and minimize a significant vulnerability that can put our servicemen and women at risk.

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Illinois Opportunity Project: ‘Restoring trust should be the priority of state government officials’

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 5, 2023

The Illinois Opportunity Project is questioning Gov. J.B. Pritzker for diverging from his past statements in support of house speaker Michael Madigan after the ComEd Four conviction.

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Illinois House Republicans on ComEd Four conviction: ‘Today’s actions in court are an indictment of the culture of corruption which was allowed to thrive under Speaker Madigan’

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 5, 2023

Illinois House Republicans noted the conviction of the ComEd Four by a jury earlier this week and the implications for former House Speaker Michael Madigan.

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Tracy on ComEd Four conviction: ‘It’s now clear that the Madigan Democrat machine corrupted Illinois State government’

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 4, 2023

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Don Tracy is cheering the recent conviction of the ComEd Four on charges they schemed to bribe former House Speaker Michael Madigan.

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ComEd Four convicted in Madigan bribery scheme

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 3, 2023

The sweeping bribery probe into an influence operation connected to former House Speaker Michael Madigan has landed four on the doorstep of jail after jury deliberations came to an end late Tuesday.

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Poll finds more than 60% of Illinois parents favor school choice: 'School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their child’s education to send their child to the public or private school'

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 2, 2023

School choice parents handily support school choice, according to an Echelon Insights poll.

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ISRA: ‘We have said from day one that this law is unconstitutional and infringes on the rights of legal firearm owners in our state’

By Prairie State Wire Report | May 2, 2023

The Illinois State Rifle Association expects, despite a judge’s ruling overturning the state’s sweeping gun ban, the case will end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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ISRA: 'Biden and his cronies will stop at nothing to destroy the Second Amendment'

By Prairie State Wire Report | Apr 30, 2023

The Illinois State Rifle Association is calling on the state’s gun owners to get active in presidential politics in the wake of President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will seek a second term.

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Jury deliberations continue in ComEd Four case: 'They weren't amateurs'

By Prairie State Wire Report | Apr 30, 2023

Arguments in the ComEd corruption trial came to a close earlier this week and the jury in the case has been deliberating since Tuesday.

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Analysis: Illinois not among the 11 states with education savings accounts

By Prairie State Wire Report | Apr 28, 2023

As Florida becomes the latest state to create an education savings account (ESA) program, an analysis by the Prairie State Wire shows that Illinois is not one of 11 states that has such a program.

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Wirepoints: Cost of Medicaid for illegal immigrants ‘is 94 times what Ramirez claimed’

By Prairie State Wire Report | Apr 27, 2023

Illinois’ Free Medicaid Program For Undocumented Immigrants is costing the state nearly $1 billion per year.