SPRINGFIELD, IL- (Greg Bishop and Dan McCaleb, Illinois News Network. Please click on the link above for the full story. Here is the link below.)
The next paycheck Illinois’ workers receive will have less money in it than the one before it. So will the one after. And the one after that.
For the first time in more than two years, the state has an enacted budget, but it comes at a significant cost to taxpayers.
House Speaker Michael Madigan got exactly the 71 votes he needed to overturn Rauner’s vetoes. Ten Republicans joined 61 Democrats in voting to override.
“The people in this chamber did not do what was easy today, but we did what was right for the future of out state,” Madigan said on the House floor. “There are a lot of things that will be said about this vote, but the most important thing I can point to is that Republican legislators and Democratic legislators got this done together.”
NOTE: The Southern Illinois Legislators did not change their vote as Dave Severin (R-Benton) voted no. Terri Braynt (R-Murphysboro) and Brandon Phelps (D-Norris City) voted yes.
Area senators John Cavaletto (R-Salem) and Jerry Costello II (D-Smithston) voted no as well.
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