Tag Archives: How did they vote?
Illinois Senate Confirms Cosgrove
To learn more, please make sure you read IFI’s Laurie Higgins’ article on this unbelievable controversy: Quinn Nominates Morally Bankrupt Activist to the Human Rights Commission
Take ACTION: Send an email or a fax to Governor Quinn to tell him how deeply offensive it is to know …
SB 1619 Passes Senate Committee — Contact Your State Senator
How did they vote?
Yesterday, the Illinois Senate Public Health committee passed SB 1619 by a party line vote of 6 to 4. It now moves to the full senate. Look at the list below to see how the members of this committee voted.
Take ACTION: Click HERE to contact your state senator today and ask him or her to vote against SB 1619, the so-called “Personal Responsibility Education Program Act,” which more appropriately could be called the “Condom Training Sex Ed Bill.” SB 1619 is backed by Illinois Planned Parenthood Council, Illinois ACLU and a host of other liberal …
Lawmakers Vote Down School Choice Bill
Illinois’ General Assembly failed to help failing students in the state’s worst schools on Wednesday afternoon.
Landmark school choice legislation was rejected by lawmakers from both parties Wednesday. This common sense bill would have allowed approximately 22,000 children from Chicago’s worst-performing and most-overcrowded elementary schools to transfer to private or parochial schools. Each student would have received approximately $3,700 in state money to specifically cover tuition costs at those schools. (Chicago public schools currently spend more than $11,000 per student.)
IFI’s Laurie Higgins says the vote came up short in the House despite a bipartisan effort. “It fell just 12 …
