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By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Adam Andrzejewski says he's not surprised by a new report showing that Illinois remains in a fiscal black hole despite a 67-percent personal income tax increase approved by the Legislature earlier this year. “The state of Illinois needs to do three things” Andrzejewski said
Continue reading …By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Adam Andrzejewski says he's not surprised by a new report showing that Illinois remains in a fiscal black hole despite a 67-percent personal income tax increase approved by the Legislature earlier this year.
Continue reading …Democratic Party Official Voting Ineligibly Illustrates Need for Voter ID Law: Ketron
September 26, 2011 No CommentPress Release from Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro ; Sept. 26, 2011:
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Kansans will have an opportunity to hear and be heard about the Keystone XL Pipeline at hearings noon to 3:30 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m
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Democrats took their “Jobs Tour” to Maury County on Wednesday, but the big news was who didn’t show up. Mike O’Rourke, president of the United Auto Workers Local 1853 , and Mike Herron, chairman of the group, were scheduled to participate in the jobs tour stop but were called to Memphis to hammer out details of General Motors’ reported plans to jump-start production at the idled Spring Hill GM plant — a development that has brought bright hopes to the long-suffering community on the jobs front
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Who says Republicans and Democrats can’t agree on the White House? Not Nebraska Republicans and
Continue reading …Everything under the sun seems to be open to squabbles over jobs between Republicans and Democrats in the Tennessee Legislature. Now it’s solar panels. Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris tweeted Tuesday night, “Solyndra’s shadow as Dems plan to tour Bredesen’s solar farm.” Norris linked to a recent Nashville Business Journal article noting that solar businesses either seem to be starting up or fading away
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Tennessee House Republicans made a point Thursday of declaring their interest in identifying burdensome regulations
Continue reading …House Republicans Hear Business Complaints on Workers’ Comp, Unemployment Benefits
September 8, 2011 No Comment
Republican lawmakers are expected to address the state’s workers’ compensation system next year and revisit the issue of extended unemployment benefits, based on a meeting of the GOP’s House small business task force in Nashville on Wednesday. The task force heard anecdotal evidence of people who are currently accepting unemployment benefits but are not willing to apply for jobs. Democrats lobbied hard for an extension of unemployment benefits in the waning hours of negotiations on the state’s $30.8 billion budget passed in May
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