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By Benjamin Cox on June 9, 2021 at 1:11pm
The Illinois General Assembly is returning to work next week to debate an energy bill.
The two chambers will be voting on a clean energy bill that couldn’t get the votes before the end of session two weeks ago.
The Illinois Senate will convene Tuesday to vote on an energy bill that would include hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies for nuclear plants owned by Exelon, the parent company of the scandal-plagued ComEd.
The state House is set to meet Wednesday to take up the energy issue and also consider an elected Chicago school board bill that was passed by the Senate in overtime on June 1
Gov. J.B. Pritzker touts the "fiscal discipline" of the $42 million budget passed by Democrats, but the state energy policy remains a point of contention.
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