In a visit to Springfield, Illinois, he told the legislature, where he was a state senator before entering national politics, that he recalled Republicans and Democrats voting “against each other all the time”, but that they also “trusted each other”.
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In an address to the Illinois General Assembly, Obama said he regretted his failure to apply to Washington politics the lessons he had learned about working across the political aisle as a state senator. “I have no doubt that a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office”.
“President Obama is uniquely unqualified to deliver this message and the IL legislature is uniquely unqualified to play host to a speech on bipartisanship”.
“I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness – a certain audacity – to this announcement”. They immediately began claiming President Barack Obama endorsed their idea in his speech. Other former presidents who have spoken to the state’s General Assembly include Jimmy Carter, Herbert Hoover and William Howard Taft.
Republican Governor Bruce Rauner has refused to sign a spending plan for Illinois’ 2016 fiscal year without winning Democratic concessions that would weaken collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions, impose term limits, freeze property taxes and make it harder for workers injured on the job to collect damages from their employers.
“Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth”.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – An Illinois lawmaker wants to make it a crime to record a fight in order to post the…
There hasn’t been a state budget in eight months.
“What’s different today is the nature and extent of the polarization”, Obama said, citing political parties that have become more homogeneous in their ideology, a fractured media, advocacy groups and “unlimited dark money”. Obama noted that 150 families have spent as much on the presidential race as the rest of Americans combined.
Tryon said he was surprised the president brought up redistricting reform in the sate, but agreed with the president’s remarks.
Obama continued his Springfield nostalgia tour with another address this afternoon, this time to a packed house of volunteers and supporters at the Hoagland Arts Center, where banners bearing his famous campaign slogan “Yes!”
“Even as we change the way system works, we also have a responsibility to change the way that we, as elected officials and as citizens, work together”, Obama said.
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NIU receives approximately 26 percent of their budget from state appropriations and has credited $20 million in MAP grants for 5,700 students for the fall 2015 and spring 2016 semesters.
