Statehouse Insider: Lame duck session starts – all two days of it

The long-awaited lame duck session of the General Assembly begins Monday. It will last all of two days. It almost makes you long for those heady days last summer and fall when Gov. BRUCE RAUNER fairly regularly talked about all the great things lawmakers could accomplish once the election was behind them and they were free to take bold votes on controversial issues. Admittedly, big things can be done in the legislature in two days. Heck, big things can get done in a couple of hours when everyone is pulling in the same direction. Of course, that hasn’t happened for the better part of two years now, so why expect everything to suddenly change now? Please click on the link from the Springfield Journal Register.