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of current interest
and hot topics in
Illinois from State
Representative
Roger Eddy.
June 25, 2008
Business owners in a number of flooded areas around the state are stepping forward to help their employees who are victims of the recent floodwaters. Some of this aid is monetary assistance to help them repair their damaged home or finding a new place to live. Unfortunately, under current tax guidelines that help can result in even more headaches for those in need.
June 11, 2008
Hutsonville…State Senator Dale Righter and State Representative Roger Eddy have established a fund to help local families devastated by flooding. The lawmakers Wednesday established the Wabash Valley Flood Relief Fund at the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Hutsonville to accept monetary donations to help meet the immediate needs of families evacuated this week from their flooded homes. Read More>>
June 2, 2008
The actual budget comes in the form of about five bills: SB1115, SB1129, SB1102, SB773 and HB5701.
The truth is that the FY09 Illinois Budget actually reads more like a fairy tale than legislation designed to be a spending plan.
May 24, 2008 While a House budget was approved along party lines, Illinois House Republicans Wednesday rejected the House Democrats’ budget, which would severely increase state spending and put the state further in debt. Representatives also cited the lack of a jobs and infrastructure package as a reason they could not support the budget. The state is ending the current FY08 year with at least a $500-million budget shortfall and another $1.7-billion in unpaid bills. Added to that today was roughly $3-billion in new spending.
May 19, 2008
An exhaustive study released in January 2008, found that Illinois ranks 49th in the rate of teacher certificates it revokes or suspends for teacher misconduct. Legislation approved in the Illinois House of Representatives hopes should help with that problem making Illinois schools safer.
May 2, 2008
The Illinois House approved a House Resolution Thursday that would direct the Auditor General to conduct a management audit of the process involved in the $1 million grant given by the Blagojevich administration to Loop Lab School. In January 2006, the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago was destroyed by fire. Three days after the fire, Governor Blagojevich pledged $1 million in state funds to rebuild the church. However, the church has never received the money. Instead the money went to Loop Lab School, a private school once housed in the church but not affiliated with it. The school used the money to buy space in an office building in Chicago’s Loop. The Schools director, Shandra Gill, was given a pardon by the Governor shortly before the grant was given to the school. She had been convicted of assaulting an Urbana police officer 5 years prior. The grant money was distributed by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
April 16, 2008
109th District State Representative Roger Eddy spoke against the bill on the House floor.
Gun legislation dealing with the sale of handguns between private citizens was defeated on a 58-58 vote. The measure sponsored by a Cook County Democrat provided if a private citizen wanted to sell a handgun to another private citizen, regardless of whether they are at a gun show or not, that sale could only be concluded after a Illinois State Police dial-up background check has been done by the seller on the buyer.
April 10, 2008
A Democratic constitutional amendment to double the state income tax on people making more than $250,000 a year failed Thursday in the Illinois House as Republicans decried the measure as an election-year stunt. The state income tax is a flat 3 percent for individuals. The Democratic proposal would have asked voters in November to increase that to 6 percent. The claim the measure would raise an estimated $3 billion a year. The proposal needed 71 votes to pass the House but got 52.
House Republicans voted against the measure for numerous reasons: there was no property tax relief, it doesn’t pay our Medicaid backlog or other bills, it gives the Governor more money to spend any way he wants, it is bad for families and small businesses, and it is a huge tax increase pushed through in haste with no public input
The bills sponsor said a portion of the money would be used for education. In the attached audio, 109th District State Representative Roger Eddy said he wants education to be done right and this legislation is not the right way to do it.
April 9, 2008
The House voted, 75-33, on Tuesday for a proposed constitutional amendment that would let voters approve or shoot down the recall option in November’s election. State Representative Roger Eddy spoke out in favor of the legislation.
Listen to comments State Representative Roger Eddy made during floor debate on HJRCA28.
3 min. 46 seconds.
April 27, 2007
Rep. Eddy concerning legislation
(HB613) dealing with septic systems.
March
22, 2007
Representative
Eddy joined House Republican Legislators and agribusiness
representatives from around the state Thursday in opposition
to Governor Blagojevich’s proposal aimed at increasing
state taxes by over $6-billion and its devastating effect
on Agriculture.
March 16, 2007
State Representative
Roger Eddy joined a group of
House Republicans in voicing their displeasure with the
Governor’s Prison Restructuring
Proposal. Attached is the audio
of comments he made at a Springfield
Press Conference.
March 7, 2007
State Representative Roger Eddy
responding to Wednesday’s Budget Address/State of
the State message by the Governor.
February 27, 2007
Comments on the Electric Rate Hearing
held last week in Springfield.
February 16, 2007
House Bill 262,
legislation he is sponsoring which provides that an applicant
for an instruction permit who is under the age of 18 must
undergo testing for controlled substances and cannabis
and must be found to be free of controlled substances and
cannabis before he or she may receive an instruction permit.
February 7, 2007
On being named Republican Spokesman of the new House
Ethanol Production Oversight Committee.
