Statehouse Insider: No budget deal; see you in January

You really didn’t think there would be some breakthrough agreement on a state budget and other issues during the fall veto

Speaker of the House Mike Madigan

session, did you? Good, then you’re not disappointed. The General Assembly wrapped up its six-day session (actually, five, after one day was canceled) addressing vetoes and a massively complicated bill to bail out two financially troubled nuclear power plants operated by profitable energy giant Exelon. The bailout bill passed. None of Gov. BRUCE RAUNER’s vetoes were overridden.  Please read story from the link in the Springfield Journal-Register.