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Illinois House Executive Committee approves budget amendment for full House consideration
The House Executive Committee approved a floor amendment to a Senate bill that makes changes to Illinois' Fiscal Year 2021 budget.
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House committee approves Senate bill amendment giving Pritzker more authority, extending sunset ride sharing dates
The Illinois House Executive Committee recently favorably recommended a Senate bill amendment that alters the Downstate Public Transportation Act.
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From SE Illinois News
Bailey says not wearing mask that caused May removal from House floor done 'on behalf of the people of Illinois'
Republican state Rep. Darren Bailey says he has no regrets about the scene he sparked in Springfield last month that led to him being removed from the first legislative session members convened for since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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House Republicans urge Pritzker to work with legislature on reopening plan
House Republicans are calling for a return to session, saying Gov. J.B. Pritzker cannot continue to make all of the decisions for Illinois on his own.
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House candidate Breen says protests are a sign of residents' frustration with Pritzker's actions
Illinois House candidate Peter Breen (R-Lombard) suspects the protests to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s extended stay-at-home order that are becoming common across the state will only intensify.
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Pritzker doesn't have a plan 'to reopen in a responsible and cautious way,' Breen says
Peter Breen fumes Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mixed message in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to have a crippling impact on local small business owners.
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Breen: 'We have to be having conversations about how we’re going to restart our society'
Peter Breen argues there are no easy answers in the battle against the lingering coronavirus.
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Breen says government should lift tax burdens for small businesses to help with coronavirus crisis
Peter Breen worries that the damage caused by the lingering coronavirus crisis could have lasting effects.
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Pritzker has 'no regard for the economic impact' of proposed progressive tax, Breen says
Peter Breen argues Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is the absolute worse person to be setting tax policy for the cash-strapped state.
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Republican lawmakers disappointed in governor's budget proposal
Illinois Republicans were disappointed after hearing Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget proposal last week
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Legal cannabis brings boost to Illinois tax revenue for January
Legal cannabis sales in Illinois have raised more than $10 million in taxes in January.
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Pritzker's address celebrated last year's 'orgy of liberal legislation' rather than facing the issues, says Breen
Illinois House candidate Peter Breen (R-Lombard) wonders if even Gov. J.B. Pritzker recognized the slanted perspective from which last week's State of the State address in Springfield was delivered.
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Madigan’s offices searched in Franks probe
House Speaker Michael Madigan’s Capital office was searched last Wednesday by Illinois state Police in connection with an ongoing investigation into sexual allegations against former state Rep. Jack Franks.
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Former Rep. Ives says Madigan raid spotlights state of Illinois politics
Former Rep. Jeanne Ives is convinced Illinois voters might be even more outraged about the direction of the state if they were privy to an up-close look of how Springfield actually operates.
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Special Investigating Committee to determine political future of disgraced Democratic Rep. Arroyo
Illinois state Reps. Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva), Grant Wehrli (R-Naperville) and Margo McDermed (R-Mokena) have been named to a bipartisan Special Investigating Committee weighing the potential expulsion of Democratic colleague Rep. Luis Arroyo (D-Chicago).
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Vaping advocates urge lawmakers to oppose ban on flavored liquids
Pro-vaping groups and small business owners held a press conference last week to share their opposition of possible legislation that would ban flavored liquids for e-cigarettes.
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Panel testifies on ethylene oxide emissions before House committee
The Illinois House of Representatives' Energy and Environment Committee recently heard testimony regarding the regulation of ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions and this year's earlier closing of the Sterigenics medical-device sterilization plant in Willowbrook.
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Illinois House committee hears testimony on possible flavored-vaping ban
The Illinois House of Representatives' Mental Health Committee heard testimony this week about a possible ban on flavored liquids for e-cigarettes.
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Report: Hostile atmosphere, sexual harassment pervaded Reps' Office of the Speaker
The report evaluating the workplace of the Office of the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives was not supposed to be partisan – but, the writers said, there was no escaping the fact that during the time period in question, Democrats controlled the office.
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Report on workplace culture at Madigan's Office of Speaker: Fear of retaliation 'major' concern of people surveyed
After more than a year of outside investigation, a 202-page report has been released surrounding claims of sexual harassment and overall workplace cultural issues within the Illinois House of Representatives, Office of the Speaker.