{"id":2387755,"date":"2025-01-08T10:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/costly-illinois-lame-duck-session-irresponsible-for-taxpayers-legislator-says-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T15:10:09","slug":"costly-illinois-lame-duck-session-irresponsible-for-taxpayers-legislator-says-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/costly-illinois-lame-duck-session-irresponsible-for-taxpayers-legislator-says-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Costly Illinois lame duck session \u2018irresponsible\u2019 for taxpayers, legislator says &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcostly-illinois-lame-duck-session-irresponsible-for-taxpayers-legislator-says-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2387755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exposed-cnns-debate-moderators-were-in-bed-with-deep-states-fake-anti-trump-campaign\/\" title=\"EXPOSED: CNN\u2019s Debate Moderators Were In Bed With Deep State\u2019s Fake Anti-Trump Campaign\">provided\u2062 text appears<\/a> too be a snippet \u2064of HTML code and XML data, rather than\u200d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-blames-extreme-house-republicans-for-looming-shutdown\/\" title=\"WH accuses &#039;extreme House Republicans&#039; of causing imminent shutdown.\">coherent article<\/a> or passage that can be \u2062summarized. \u200dIt\u200d consists of elements such as a button for reading more content, an HTML horizontal line,\u200b and multiple XML encoding\u2064 declarations. 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Another dealt with more oversight of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. Yet another would repeal the requirement to publish legal name changes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have concluded the work of the Senate of the 103rd General Assembly,&rdquo; said Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park. &ldquo;I will note with pride, we have done so with very little drama and shortly after noon, not midnight.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, said the measures preparing to head to the governor&rsquo;s desk aren&rsquo;t good for constituents.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not talking about helping people put food on their kids&rsquo; tables. We&rsquo;re not talking about economic instability of this state. We&rsquo;re not talking about the debt crisis that&rsquo;s looming. You&rsquo;re not talking about crime,&rdquo; Rose said during a news conference Monday. &ldquo;Again, you&rsquo;re not talking about food prices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The total number of bills filed over the past two years was nearly 10,000. Legislators approved about 500.<\/p>\n<p>During House floor debate Tuesday, state Rep. Chris Miller, R-Oakland, said all of this comes with a daily taxpayer cost.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just in per diem alone in the lame duck session as far as the cost to the taxpayers, it&rsquo;s a little over $120,000, give or take,&rdquo; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Adding in the cost of mileage, staff, utilities and materials, Miller said taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is irresponsible government at it&rsquo;s finest,&rdquo; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>The House continued its work into Tuesday evening before adjourning &ldquo;sine die.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The 104th General Assembly that was elected in November will be seated at noon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1930384\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1930384\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois lame duck session deemed &#8216;irresponsible&#8217; for taxpayers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2387756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23293582244211-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36155,6413,44818,4762,8956],"class_list":["post-2387755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-government-accountability","tag-illinois","tag-lame-duck-session","tag-legislation","tag-taxpayers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP23293582244211-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387759,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387755\/revisions\/2387759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}