Illinois State House Representatives
Recent News About Illinois State House Representatives
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Batinick recalls Obama's words: 'Gerrymandering is bad for the country, bad for the state'
Veteran Illinois state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) says everything he sees Democrats in Springfield doing now on the issue of map redistricting is opposite of how local government was intended to function.
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Batinick: 'The CDC guidelines are pretty clear. If you're vaccinated, you don't need a mask inside'
Illinois veteran state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) has grown tired of all the double-talk he insists he hears on the subject of masks mandates.
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Will County Pride Coalition chair McIlvain urges legislators to engage ‘LGBTQIA communities that exist in Illinois’ in redistricting hearings
Jes McIlvain, Plainfield Pride's executive director, urged members of the House and the Senate to include underrepresented sectors of the community in the redistricting process.
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Batinick: 'There's an overarching yet constantly ignored need for change and reform in Illinois'
With Illinois earning the distinction of being the second most corrupt state in America — costing taxpayers more than $550 million each year—state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) urges the need for substantial reforms from the legislature.
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Lawmaker warns of corruption's effects on Illinoisans
State Rep. Jackie Haas (R-Kankakee) promoted her party’s Reimagine Illinois platform as an antidote to the corruption taking place within Illinois state government, asserting it has caused citizens of the Prairie State to suffer.
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Batinick: Need for change and reform in Illinois 'constantly ignored'
Republican says it's time to focus on real problems and put corruption in the past
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Durkin: Illinoisans want 'politics removed from redistricting'
Republican House Floor Leader Jim Durkin (R-Burre Ridge) is stressing the stakes couldn’t be higher in the ongoing fair maps debate.
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Batinick aiming to rename Route 59 in Plainfield 'Private First Class Andrew Meari Highway'
Veteran state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) is backing a proposal that would lead to a length of Route 59 being renamed after Private First Class Andrew Meari.
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Batinick: 'I want people to trust the elections'
After the House passed HB 1871, a bill that would expand mail-in voting, state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) said he supports voting by mail but stressed that it should be made hard to cheat.
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Batinick: 'Illinois has ignored calls for reform for far too long'
Republican House Floor Leader Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) was among the volunteers recently lending a helping hand at the mobile food pantry at St. Mary’s.
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Batinick: We need to 'realize that the house is on fire' when spending federal bailout dollars
With the state soon expected to receive as much as $7.5 billion from the federal government’s $1.9 trillion relief bill, state Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) is calling on state lawmakers to be more efficient in running the state.
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Batinick votes no on HB117
Rep. Mark Batinick, at a hearing for HB117, suggested two tweaks in the penalty for mistakes in annuitance.
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Ozinga disappointed Pritzker signed police reform bill
State Rep. Tim Ozinga (R-Mokena) criticized the signing of House Bill 3653 into law, saying that Democrats passed the police reform bill without letting Republicans and other appropriate people take a look at it.
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Batinick: For decades, the majority party has treated us like mushrooms
Plainfield Republican Rep. Mark Batinick said that the proposed Illinois House Rules do not include the revisions the lawmakers need to ensure that legislation is comprehensively reviewed.
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Batinick: We need to give citizens the power to remove bad officials
Summarized as a legislative package that would empower Illinoisans to act on several significant matters of the state, Batinick called it a “preventive medicine.”
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Batinick blasts speaker's decision to cancel legislature's fall Veto Session
State Rep. Mark Batinick expressed “extreme disappointment, “ that the fall Veto Session of the legislature has been cancelled.