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Durkin to House Dems on graduated income tax amendment vote: 'Take responsibility for this mess'
House Republican Speaker Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) asked Democrats to take responsibility for their actions during Monday's vote on the graduated income tax constitutional amendment.
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Batinick says income tax proposal is part of a parade of 'anti-growth' bills
House Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) called the graduated income tax proposal an "anti-growth" bill while speaking on the House floor Monday during the session.
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McDermed says graduated income tax proposal will harm middle class
House Rep. Margo McDermed (R-Mokena) said lawmakers are doubling down on failed policies and will tax the middle class with the graduated income tax structure during Monday's session.
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Castration remark has yet to elicit comment from Rep. Connor, a co-sponsor of new abortion bill
Democratic state Rep. John Connor (D-Lockport), one of roughly 40 co-sponsors of the Reproductive Health Act bill, has yet to publicly comment on Rep, Diane Pappas’ alleged assertion that castration could be a viable solution to the issue of abortion.
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Batinick at a loss for words to describe Pappas' 'castration' comments, other than 'outrageous'
State Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) argues that Democratic colleague Diane Pappas’ purported stance on abortions proves how fringe-oriented her party has become, even by its own increasingly unconventional standards.
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Rep. Batinick encouraged by House Republicans' commitment to stand together against tax plan
Illinois state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) argues that there is no possible way Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated income tax plan can do the things being promised.
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Rep. McDermed embraces GOP's responsibility to protect taxpayers from Democrats' 'cruel lie'
Illinois state Rep. Margo McDermed (R-Mokena) insists the next proposal she hears calling for cuts in spending will be the first she’s heard from lawmakers in her five years in Springfield.
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Rep. Batinick opposes 'shortsighted' tax plan
Veteran state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) is convinced that Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax plan will just keep moving Illinois in the wrong direction if it comes to fruition.
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House bill would wipe out $49.5 million state debt to Oswego school district, two Republican lawmakers say
Oswego School District 308's Board of Education is worried about how to close a $1.3 million deficit while a Democrat lawmaker would have the state weasel out of paying $49.5 million it has owed the district for years, two Republican lawmakers are saying.
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Batinick views gas-tax hike as another Springfield agenda leading the state down a dangerous road
Springfield’s ongoing spending spree has the state on a path to nowhere, bemoans Republican state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield).
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House passes McDermed-sponsored bill that adds medical information for purposes of identity theft
A bill that adds medical information to what constitutes identity theft passed unanimously in the House of Representatives Wednesday.
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Batinick supports bill to raise tobacco age to 21, despite questions about decriminalization
Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) supported a bill that changes the age for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21.
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Frustrated with lack of movement on equal pay, state Rep. McDermed files new bill of her own
Rep. Margo McDermed (R-Frankfort) recently urged the House to vote No on Rep. Anna Moeller's (D-Elgin) equal-pay bill that she has supported in the past, asking instead for votes on her own bill when it makes it to the House from subcommittee.
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GOP Rep. Batinick cannot 'begin to understand' new pension proposal
State Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) admits he can hardly believe Illinois now outspends every other state in pension costs by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
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Batinick: Of course businesses steer clear of Illinois
State Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) says he can count all the ways why so many businesses seem to steer clear of Illinois these days.
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From DuPage Policy Journal
Hydroponics bill introduced in House
Rep. Stephanie A. Kifoweit (D-Aurora) introduced a bill created to drive business for hydroponics on Feb. 1 to the House of Representatives.
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Bill introduced to curb violence in Chicago
A bill to enact the Chicago Violence Prevention Act and provide more police officers across the city and county was introduced in the House of Representatives on Jan. 14.
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Batinick: Minimum wage hike would hurt, not help, local economies
State Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) says he fears empowered Democratic lawmakers in Springfield are focused on the wrong things when it comes to fixing the state’s ailing economy.
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McDermed says voters are fed up with machine politics
State Rep. Margo McDermed (R-Mokena) says voters have had enough of what she calls Springfield’s pay-for-play politics.
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Batinick decries low private-sector job creation in Illinois
State Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) cites several damning factors he argues have caused Illinois to falter.