Illinois State Representative Tony McCombie reacted to Governor JB Pritzker’s second State of the State Address. She renew[ed] her call for Illinois lawmakers to focus on providing relief for out-of-control property taxes; reforming ethics laws to eliminate self-dealing; improving the way Illinois redraws its political maps, following the decennial Census.
Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has a plan to address the student loan crisis, that is holding back our economy and crushing thousands of American families. “We got into this crisis, because State governments and the Federal government decided that, instead of treating higher education like our public school system–free
Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos is a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs. On Friday, February 14, 2020,she released the following statement about the Administration’s recent decision to steal Department of Defense funds, which are crucial to military readiness, for border wall construction. President
State Representative Tony McCombie stood with fellow House Republican Legislators from Northern Illinois, in denouncing the missed opportunity and failed effort of the partisan-controlled Task Force, to consider and recommend meaningful short- and long-term property tax relief. Video from the Press Conference and more information about this and other State
On Friday, January 17, 2020,, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced $3,866,478 in Federal grants, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care (CoC) program. CoC is designed to assist individuals and families experiencing homelessness and to provide services necessary to help
On Thursday, July, 18, 2019, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos helped pass the Raise the Wage Act. This legislation would raise the Federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2025[. It would] give more than 33 million hardworking Americans a raise. Additionally, this bill would lift 1.3 million Americans out of
Editor’s note: Joe Guzzardi is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org. During a recent meeting with the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department, and about 20 other representatives from agencies involved in immigration, the Trump
Editors’ note: Tony McCombie is Republican State Representative for Illinois’ 71st District, which includes portions of Rock Island, Henry, Carroll, and Whiteside Counties. Pension reform has been a hot topic in Illinois for years now. [It is] a massive fiscal challenge that spends roughly 25% of our General Fund and
Peter Roff is a Senior Fellow at Frontiers of Freedom and a former U. S. News and World Report Contributing Editor, who appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. There’s nothing wrong with being wealthy. What matters is how one got to be that way. Far
Christine Flowers is an attorney and a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. There are people, particularly in areas like Philadelphia[, PA,] where progressives tend to congregate, who cannot understand why anyone would have voted for Donald Trump. Trump is considered by most Democrats and even some Republicans as a
Dick Polman is the National political columnist at WHYY in Philadelphia, PA, and a “Writer in Residence” at the University of Pennsylvania. His email is dickpolman7@gmail.com. Are we capable of connecting two dots? The fake border crisis distracts us from the true National emergency: A suspected Russian asset sits in
Sixty years, ten months, and 26 days ago, then-Senator John F. Kennedy, offered this path to Legislative statesmenship. He spoke during a Loyola College Alumni Banquet in Baltimore, MD, on February 18, 1958. There is wisdom in his 35 words that applies today. “Let us not seek the Republican answer
An award-winning political journalist, Micek is the Opinion Editor and Political Columnist for PennLive/The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, PA. It was a perfect post-Christmas day, as I watched tourists move in concentric circles around the Jefferson Memorial at the far edge of the National Mall. Jefferson’s famous exhortation about the nature
Editor’s note: This information was published on Monday, January 7, 2019, by the office of Illinois Representative Cheri Bustos. In addition to 800,000 workers who are either furloughed or working without pay–including folks at airports and the Peoria[, IL,] Agriculture Lab–our farmers are feeling the consequences from President Trump’s reckless
On Thursday, January 3, 2019, the House of Representatives passed legislation that will fundamentally change the way the House operates. The rules package will ensure that the House is more effective, fiscally responsible, and working with integrity for the people. Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, Illinois’ 17th Congressional District, stated, “For far too