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Mar 11, 2021 3:17 PM
(The Center Square) – The independent Legislative Inspector General is asking Illinois lawmakers for a budget of nearly $1 million to investigate lawmakers.
If investigation costs end up exceeding that, she said she would have to go back to lawmakers for more.
It’s budget season at the statehouse. State agency officials are pitching their proposed budgets during virtual hearings. Two budget requests heard Wednesday in the House were the Legislative Ethics Commission and the Legislative Inspector General.
The proposed budget for the Legislative Inspector General is $920,000 with $100,000 of that set aside if there’s a need to hire a court reporter for any contested cases in front of the Legislative Ethics Commission.
Legislative watchdog asks Illinois state lawmakers for $920,000 to investigate state lawmakers
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Through our recent national traumas, we’ve learned the importance of the rule of law. No one in our society should be above the law including the Delaware General Assembly.
As Thomas Jefferson warned, “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.”
Our lawmakers have used their lawmaking power to exempt themselves from the section of the Delaware Code known as the “State Employees’, Officers’ and Officials’ Code of Conduct” and from oversight of the Public Integrity Commission.
In 2015 the Center for Public Integrity gave Delaware an F, ranking the First State 48th in systems to deter corruption in state government. The report characterized ethics enforcement in Delaware as “anemic.”
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By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network
A Republican congresswoman is defending her state lawmaker husband from what she says are attacks full of lies about the Jan. 6 capitol riots. Illinois Democrats are demanding an investigation.
Hundreds of thousands of people were in Washington D.C. Jan. 6 when the U.S. Congress was certifying the presidential election. A riot then ensued at the capitol building. Hundreds of people face criminal charges because of the violence and trespassing.
Video and other images on social media show state Rep. Chris Miller, R-Oakland, was in Washington D.C. Jan. 6 attending rallies. Pictures also show a truck purportedly owned by Miller with a decal for a group called The Three Percenters.
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SPRINGFIELD A new survey of Illinois school districts shows most are continuing to have trouble filling open teaching positions with qualified teachers and even more are having difficulty hiring substitute teachers.
It’s a problem that has existed in the state for many years and one that experts attribute to a variety of factors, such as low pay and the difficulty in attracting new teachers to work in certain parts of the state.
The survey has been conducted each of the past four years by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools. Regional superintendents are in charge of supervising schools in the state’s 38 educational regions and operating regional offices of education. They also act as a kind of conduit of information and support between the Illinois State Board of Education and the state’s 853 local school districts.
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