Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
The Illinois Senate will return to Springfield to consider major ethics legislation, presumably in time to avoid a constitutional challenge about when an ambiguous 15-day clock expires.Senate President Emil Jones Jr., who previously said he would not reco...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
The Illinois Senate will return to Springfield to consider major ethics legislation, presumably in time to avoid a constitutional challenge about when an ambiguous 15-day clock expires.Senate President Emil Jones Jr., who previously said he would not reco...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
Senate President Emil Jones Jr. is under increasing pressure to call his chamber back to Springfield to vote on ethics reforms and budget restorations already approved by the House last week. But the pressure affects him differently than his members, as h...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
The Illinois Senate does not plan to return to Springfield until its regularly scheduled fall session starts November 12, and theres a debate about whether that means highly anticipated ethics reforms would die before then.The House on Wednesday overrode...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
In a whirlwind session Wednesday, the Illinois House restored funding to prevent state parks and historic sites from closing and hundreds of public employees from losing their jobs. It also agreed to let the governor lease the Illinois Lottery as a way to...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
A few loose ends that we recently wrote about have been tied up today, while few more are about to reopen next week. The Illinois House returns to Springfield Wednesday and Thursday to debate funding for a statewide construction plan and to reverse some o...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
Illinois Republicans have come to expect the unexpected with U.S. Sen. John McCain, their presumptive nominee for president, but Fridays announcement about his new running mate was flat out shocking to some members of the Illinois GOP.Taking attention aw...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
Editors note: This weeks Democratic National Convention in Denver and next weeks Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul are perfect reasons to stop and gain some perspective. Below is a conversation between Brian Gaines, a political sci...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich could have signed significant campaign contribution limits into law, targeting pay to play politics immediately upon his signature. Instead, the ethics reforms he announced today wont take effect until January 1, and it's questiona...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich could have signed significant campaign contribution limits into law, targeting pay to play politics starting January 1 (CORRECTION: Both the legislation and the executive order would not have taken effect until January 1. I regret t...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 2 months ago.
Illinois Old State Capitol got another cameo in the Hollywood-like narrative of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama trying to get to the White House as the first African American president. His first appearance with his new Democratic running mate, U.S. Sen. Joe Bide...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
Starting in January, all parents will be able to decide whether to extend their health insurance coverage to their children up to age 26. Veterans will be able stay on their parents policies until age 30.The Illinois Senate on Tuesday agreed with House t...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich is losing his biggest ally in Senate President Emil Jones Jr., who announced his upcoming retirement this afternoon. When his term ends in January, he'll end a 35-year career in the Illinois General Assembly.Jones' departure further c...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
The Illinois State Fair kicked off the political campaign season, with Democrats and Republicans rallying on the fairgrounds for the past two consecutive days. Theyre rearing up for national conventions at the end of this month and beginning of next. Ill...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
There is a process. And House Speaker Michael Madigan will never let this or any governor forget that. He believes in the legislature as an institution, and the he will not stand by if anyone tries to circumvent the legislative process. The House took act...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
The Illinois legislature continued a trend by ignoring the governors requests and, instead, focusing on some hot-button issues that grab headlines before the November elections. Gov. Rod Blagojevich called a special legislative session for today to focus...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
Reminiscent of last year, a whole host of state policy issues remain up in the air throughout the summer. Inaction mostly rests on the shoulders of Democrats, who are repeating history by agreeing on practically nothing. The main culprits are Gov. Rod Bla...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
The first time a state legislative panel has gone this far in carrying out a statutory process for closing a state facility isnt a pretty one. Whether intended or not, one Illinois town has been pitted against another after Gov. Rod Blagojevich in June p...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 3 months ago.
Illinois is closing out July in style and gearing up for more politics in August. The same day Gov. Rod Blagojevich unveiled a compromise capital plan to fund road and school construction projects throughout the state, his office was sued along with Sen...
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 4 months ago.
Taylorville is one step closer to building a $2.5 billion clean coal power plant using Illinois coal and advanced technologies to reduce pollution. The Illinois House twice rejected the plan before approving legislation Wednesday that would allow a so-c...
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