During the question and answer session of the introduction, there were a few questions asked to the effect [...]
edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
During the question and answer session of the introduction, there were a few questions asked to the effect [...]
Over 1,859 of you voted in our last poll, which asked which candidate (Hastert or Hultgren) do you prefer in the 14th congressional district GOP Primary. The results are below. Be sure to vote in our new poll.
72.1% Ethan [...]Here's the latest from the Democratic primary in the 10th Congressional District:
Yesterday, the candidates sparred in a debate at the North Shore Unitarian Church in Deerfield. As the Tribune reported, Dan Seals and Elliot Richardson responded harshly after Julie Hamos' touted her experience as a state representative:
"There are lots" [...]
Computer records, newly obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, offer the latest evidence that former Democrat governor Blagojevich was working out a plan to keep White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's congressional seat warm for him if he [Emanuel] decided to return to fill it [...]
According to former Illinois congressman, and Obama Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, the citizens of Illinois are being downright ungrateful for the government largess he and Pres. Obama are providing us peasants this year. To LaHood, housing dangerous terrorists at the Thomson Correctional Center should be viewed [...]
Thomson Sale Hearing Set
A public hearing on the sale of Thomson Correctional Center will
take place on Tuesday in Sterling, Illinois. Congressional Republicans
still say they will try to block changes in federal law required to close
the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move detainees north.
By John Brown's Ghost
While I am hoping against hope that clearer minds will prevail, it looks like our children will have a lump of coal underneath their trees for years and years to come, as Congress is poised to pass health care "reform". With Senator Ben Nelson [...]
by Collin Hitt
A Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House have steered stimulus dollars to Democratic districts far more often than they have to Republican districts. This is the finding of an absolutely knockout paper released today by the Mercatus Center.
Authors Jerry Brito and Veronique de Rugy note [...]
Earlier this month in Washington, the House and Senate reconciled two versions of an omnibus spending bill and agreed to appropriate $2.5 billion for high-speed rail next year. While transit advocates were hoping for $4 billion, they were still thrilled by Congress' new commitment to the project. For instance,' [...]
Is 70 years old.
Today, if Dorothy were to encounter
people with no brains, no hearts, and no courage -
She wouldn’t be in Oz
She’d be in Congress !!!.
Illinois' Tea Party movement has found their candidate for the GOP US Senate primary, and it's not front-runner Congressman Mark Kirk, it's attorney Patrick Hughes. On January 5, 2010 the Will County Tea Party Alliance is holding a "Stop Mark Kirk" rally at the Woodbine Country Club in Homer Glen,' [...]
Congress moved a few steps closer yesterday to extending unemployment insurance for jobless Americans and boosting the economy more broadly. First, as we noted yesterday, the U.S. House approved the final version of a defense appropriations bill (H.R. 3326) that includes a $13 billion provision to extends both COBRA health coverage and [...]
from the Schilling for Congress campaign
EAST MOLINE, IL--Bobby Schilling, Republican candidate for the Illinois 17th Congressional District, criticized the so-called "New Deal for a New Economy Act" today, for using false predictions and bogus facts, and for ignoring the input of real people who know how to create real jobs.
"The" [...]
by Nancy Thorner
A Docs4PatientCare Town Hall Meeting was held this past Tuesday at the Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel in Northbrook, IL. The Town Hall Meeting was attended by 50 concerned citizens, including several doctors.
It was an event that deserves repeating throughout Chicagoland at various venues, as Congress presses [...]
We've been trying to tell those within the DC Beltway about The Chicago Way for a couple of years, but few would listen. There's another Congressman about to become a believer -- U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas. Burgess is expected to file a resolution calling for the White House' [...]
WASHINGTON--The White House sent members of the Illinois congressional delegation a memo covering a series of questions they generated in the wake of President Obama's order for the federal government to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois for a prison to house detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military [...]
from Maria Rodriquez for Congress, 8th CD
Long Grove, IL - The U.S. House narrowly voted to raise the U.S. debt ceiling by $290 billion bringing the total amount the federal government can borrow to $12.394 trillion. Melissa Bean, the current representative from Illinois' 8th district, voted for the debt increase.
Maria' [...]
Some health care reform ramblings.
The Republicans are crying about having to read a 2,000 page bill. Locally, Republican Isaac Hayes, challenging Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. for Congress, has lamented Jackson’s support of health care reform. In a strange move, on his campaign blog, Hayes reproduces a press release from [...]
