Choate offers four point plan to curb legislative glut
Illinois Republican House Minority Leader Clyde Choate proposes ending new bill introductions by June 30 of the first year, keeping key matters on the calendar, and allowing overage bills to be reconsidered via interim committees. He suggests a joint rules committee and committee bills with supermajority approval to streamline lawmaking and reduce prolific but minor legislation.
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Richard H. Ieen Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois General Assembly
House
Clyde L. Choate
D-Anna
Choate
Commission On the Organization of the General Assembly
Commission
Harold A. Katz
Dglencoe
Senate
Illinois
Congress
Donald Wooten
Rock Island
State Department of Public Health
U. S. Supreme Court
Illinois General Assembly Returns to Work on Tax Relief
Illinois lawmakers reopen with aims to ease taxes and fund mass transit. Gov Walker highlights an $89 million relief package while Senate reviews property tax freezes and a sales tax cut tied to a Chicago area regional transportation authority. No fault insurance and abortion controls also face action as U S Supreme Court limits state involvement in early pregnancy decisions.
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Springfield
Illinois General Assembly
Daniel Walker
Status of major Illinois bills before the 78th General Assembly
The House approved death penalty bills and sent them to the Senate floor after Senate committee amendments. Labor and wage bills move through Senate. professional strike breaker ban remains in committee. Environment measures aim to weaken state agency powers and lift EPA leaf burning ban awaiting governor. News shield bills on source secrecy advance in Senate committee. Tax bills include property tax freeze advancing, a $10 income tax credit killed, and a sales tax relief plan cut to a one half percent reduction. Election reform bills stay at passage stage in Senate, with boards of elections legislation stalled. Campaign disclosure bills to require reporting of expenditures over $100 were killed in committee.
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C. L. McCormick
Vienna
Walker
James Londrigan
Springfield
Senate
W. Robert Blair
Illinois
Illinois General Assembly
House
Environment
EPA
Cuban refugees in Miami want to return to Cuba
Hundreds of Cuban refugees in the United States seek to go back to Cuba after freedom flights halted. Families remain behind in Cuba and in Florida as exiles cope with loneliness, separation, and failed adaptation. Some have even attempted returns by boat amid the ongoing access limits.
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United States
Ignacio Hernandez
Miami
Hernandez
Havana
Cuba
U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Florida
U. S
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