Illinois State House District 106 issued the following announcement on Nov. 13.
Fall veto session cancelled
I am disappointed to report that the fall session of the General Assembly has been cancelled. We were scheduled to meet next week and the week after Thanksgiving, but Speaker Madigan has decided to cancel the session. This is a serious disappointment as we have many critical issues which need to be acted upon. Instead, it appears we will be waiting until the new General Assembly is sworn in in January.
This year I have sponsored several bills which I felt needed urgent action. The legislature should be much more involved in the state’s coronavirus response, rather than ceding so much authority to the Governor. We also need action on ethics reform and property tax reform, perhaps now more than ever.
Special Investigating Committee has not met since September
The House of Representatives has a Special Investigating Committee looking into allegations against Speaker Michael Madigan concerning a bribery scheme in which he was implicated, but not formally charged. Over the summer, the utility company ComEd entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in which the company admitted to bribing a state policymaker in exchange for favorable government actions. The agreement pointed to Madigan as the official.
The House convened a special committee to investigate the allegations, and the committee met twice, but then abruptly cancelled any further hearings until after the election. The committee meeting set for November 5 was also cancelled, and no new date was set.
The people of Illinois deserve better than this. We need answers about what happened, and action to ensure that it does not happen again. State government has needed ethics reform for far too long, and this is just more proof of that need.
Original source can be found here.
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