Around 10pm Friday night, Democrats were brewing with confidence about the chances of passing a state budget without the overnight drama that nearly derailed their budget plan a year ago.
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Notes from Friday night’s House budget hearing and Saturday morning’s Senate budget hearing.
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The House and Senate have each dropped a budget as the two chambers work toward final passage Saturday.
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House Democratic caucus is massively in favor of a budget deal presented to them in caucus Friday afternoon, multiple sources said.
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“Crash and burn,” is the way one top insider described Thursday’s flameout of a Senate plan to restructure and fund mass transit in the Chicago region.
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With time running out on the General Assembly to pass a budget before Saturday’s scheduled adjournment, Governor JB Pritzker drew a line in the sand on tax increases Wednesday.
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“I don’t know anything, do you know anything?” came the response from a well-connected House Democrat Tuesday.
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After a weekend of late night budget talks, sources say there are still significant differences among Democrats in trying to balance Governor JB Pritzker’s proposed $55 billion budget.
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While top Democrats insisting this year that there is no appetite for tax increases as a part of the new state budget, House Democrats were apparently asked their opinion on a package of tax hikes Thursday.
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About a year after the General Assembly passed legislation to allow businesses to store carbon dioxide deep underground in Central Illinois, lawmakers followed up Tuesday sending a bill banning the storage under a main source of drinking water for millions in central Illinois.
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The Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) Tuesday blasted out an e-mail to members accusing the Illinois State Police were violating gun owner rights over a pending outage in the system that allows gun shops to check the validity of Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) cards.
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As lawmakers returned to the Capitol Tuesday for the final two-week run of the spring legislative session, sources say negotiations on most major issues continue, but few agreements have been reached.
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Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (D-Naperville), a fourth-term rising star in Democratic politics, announced Monday she will forego a race for United States Senate and will seek re-election to the House in 2026.
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While Underwood announced Monday she would seek re-election to the House, she may have picked up a new Republican challenger.
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Rep. Fred Crespo (D-Hoffman Estates) says he “is trying to understand” House Speaker Chris Welch’s rationale for removing him from his committee chair position, removing his staff support, and disinviting him from House Democratic Caucus meetings.
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WGN-TV plastered a headline yesterday afternoon claiming budget negotiators are trying to fill a $500 million shortfall in the final two weeks before lawmakers are to pass a budget and leave Springfield.
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A former state campaign chairman for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, who once had his law license suspended for a year, is apparently in the running to be the new United States Attorney for Central Illinois.
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The Trump administration brings its brand of chaos to Springfield Wednesday, as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem comes to town to host a news conference on the state’s immigration policies.
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As expected, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Schaumburg) entered the race for retiring Sen. Dick Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat Wednesday morning.
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