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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With all of today’s hubbub about separation of church and state, it&#8217;s refreshing to hear someone invoke Scripture on the floor of a state legislature. </span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/03/when-scripture-on-the-illinois-house-floor-is-an-embarrassment/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by John Biver</em></p>
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</p><p>The Illinois News Network reported <a href="https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/michael-madigan-is-the-longest-serving-state-house-speaker-in/article_78a06556-7c7f-11e7-8c7f-dbee57798c6d.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some big news</a> about a new national &#8220;political power&#8221; record that was set this week:</p>
<blockquote><p>Illinois’ longest serving House speaker is now the United State’s longest serving statehouse speaker.</p>
<p>The title was held for years by a South Carolina politician from the 1970s, but the title now goes to Chicago Democrat <strong>Michael Madigan</strong>.</p>
<p>Madigan has been speaker of the Illinois House every year since 1983, except for two years in the 1990s when Republicans were in the majority.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/08/illinois-republicans-set-national-record-for-losing-elections/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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