The Illinois General Assembly adjourned its spring session as scheduled on Friday, May 31st without finding a solution to the state’s nearly $100-billion public pension problem.
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The Illinois General Assembly headed into the final hours of the spring legislative session deeply divided over how to address the state’s nearly $100-billion pension crisis.
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On this week’s Illinois Lawmakers, Illinois Public Radio Statehouse Bureau chief Amanda Vinicky leads off our coverage with an update on the week’s news from Springfield.
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Illinois Public Radio Statehouse Bureau Chief Amanda Vinicky leads off this week’s Illinois Lawmakers coverage with an update of the week’s news under the Capitol dome.
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The Illinois Senate this week passed a union-backed pension reform bill on a 40-16 vote but the measure’s fate is uncertain in the Illinois House where that chamber had earlier passed its own plan to solve the state’s public employee pension crisis.
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The Illinois House has passed a comprehensive pension reform package sponsored by House Speaker Michael Madigan but the plan faces an uncertain fate in the Senate where President John Cullerton favors a different approach to solving the state’s nearly $100-billion pension problem.
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A regular program on current events and issues in Illinois policy and politics, Illinois Lawmakers is produced in partnership by WSIU-TV Carbondale, WTVP-TV Peoria, and Illinois Public Media, Urbana.
