Lame Duck Session https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:47:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Lame Duck Session https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Big Government in Illinois Is Growing https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/12/big-government-in-illinois-is-growing/ Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:00:57 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=28397 Written by David E. Smith

The corporate media will not tell you this, but as a resident of Illinois, you need to know that during the 103rd General Assembly (2023-2024), more than 9,800 bills were filed during this legislative session. Thus far, Governor JB Pritzker has signed 1,057 of these bills into law. And since the session isn’t officially through until January 8, 2025, that number may yet grow.

On New Year’s Day, 293 of those laws will take effect.… Continue Reading

]]> 28397 Minority Leader Durkin Calls For an End to Lame Duck Sessions https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2015/02/minority-leader-durkin-calls-for-an-end-to-lame-duck-sessions/ Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:30:35 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=3364 Durkin

Written by IllinoisReview.com

Illinois has a history of passing controversial legislation such as tax hikes during the last few hours before a new General Assembly is sworn in.

There’s two obvious reasons leadership uses this tactic: 1. Those members who were not re-elected are able to make votes for which they won’t be accountable to their districts, and 2. When the calendar moves into January, legislation no longer needs super majorities to pass, they go back to requiring simple majorities for bill passage.

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