Articles filed under Politics
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Kinzinger defends impeachment vote, saying he'd “regret it forever” if he didn'tFeb 09, 2021 12:00 am - Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger defended his vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump for his role in last month's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, telling rep...
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Clean Energy Jobs Act reintroduced with stricter utility accountabilityFeb 09, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Following the admission in court by utility giant ComEd to a yearslong bribery scheme, lawmakers are reintroducing the Clean Energy Jobs Act in the General...
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Senate votes 56-44 that Trump's impeachment trial is constitutional, will resume WednesdayFeb 09, 2021 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial opened Tuesday with graphic video showing the former president whipping up a rally crowd to march to the Ca...
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Trump lawyers blast impeachment trial as 'political theater'Feb 08, 2021 12:00 am - WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday blasted the impeachment case against him as an act of “political theater” and accused House Democrats on the eve of the f...
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New Democratic state senators sworn inFeb 08, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Two new Democratic Senators were sworn in Saturday to fill vacancies in the Illinois General Assembly. Doris Turner, a former Springfield City Council memb...
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AARP-backed legislation would target gaps in health care, financial statusFeb 08, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The senior advocacy group AARP is backing forthcoming legislation aimed at addressing racial disparities in health care, economic security and digital conn...
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Political hypocrisy on deficits and the national debtFeb 07, 2021 12:00 am - On April 1, 2018, when Thad Cochran retired after 40 years as a U.S. senator from Mississippi, he made history; Cochran was the last Republican in Congress to have ever ...
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True believers the past, Cheney the future in modern GOPFeb 07, 2021 12:00 am - "I was allowed to believe things that weren't true," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, told her colleagues Thursday. It was a non-apology for repeating ...
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Could Illinois' next Republican chairman also come from the suburbs?Feb 05, 2021 4:20 am - Of the three candidates for state Republican Party chairman, Lake Forest's Mark Shaw is the only one from the North or Northwest suburbs. But Shaw's residency in the pop...
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The strength and courage of women business ownersFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - A recent survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports that women-owned small businesses have been more heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, and they are less ...