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Lawmakers from both parties told officials from Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration on Thursday, March 11 that the General Assembly should have some say in how the state spends the $7.5 billion in federal funds that Illinois expects to receive from the newly-enacted American Rescue Plan.
Those comments came during a virtual hearing of the House Revenue and Finance Committee that took place just hours after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill into law.
“I think the legislature would like a say in appropriating money, given our role,” Rep. Michael Zalewski, D-Riverside, said to the director of the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget, Alexis Sturm. “So my hope is that you could convey that to the governor’s office and we can develop a framework to work together on that.”
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Washington, D.C. — Today, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives took another step toward enacting the most meaningful gun violence prevention legislation in decades. A bipartisan coalition on Thursday passed H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446, two bills that would, respectively, require background checks for private gun sales between individuals and address the so-called “Charleston loophole,” significantly reducing the risk of gun dealers selling firearms […]
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