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With less than a month left before the election, Democratic candidate for the 14th Congressional District Lauren Underwood will be finishing the last leg of her campaign in a new office in downtown Woodstock, 129 E. Van Buren St. Campaign spokeswoman Andra Belknap said Underwood's team moved from its original office on Calhoun Street in Woodstock because it needed a larger space. Underwood - who has campaigned for affordable health care, among other reforms - challenges incumbent Republican Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Plano.
When the Democratic Party told Lauren Underwood she needed to raise $100,000 in six weeks to get her campaign for Congress off the ground, she wasn't sure what to do. The nurse from suburban Chicago had never run for office, and her fundraising experience was mostly limited to selling Girl Scout cookies for $4 a box.
In this May 20, 2013, file photo, U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, D-Wash., speaks at a rally in Olympia, Wash. Heck is helping lead the Democrats' effort to pick up the 23 seats needed to regain control of the House in the 2018 midterm election.
Congressmen Randy Hultgren and Jim McGovern , Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, say they "regret"Tuesday's decision by the Trump Administration to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The announcement to withdraw from the Council was made by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
House Democrats are searching for a path to pick up 23 seats to win back control of the chamber and seats held by four Illinois Republicans are part of the House political shop's 104-district battlefield. That battlefield will shrink as it gets closer to November with the most resources from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its allies going to the strongest Democrat House challengers.
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Pamella Gronemeyer, who is running for the low-profile position of Democratic state central committeewoman in the 13th Congressional District, hasn't promised to try to unseat longtime Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan. But one of Madigan's campaign committees, Friends of Michael J. Madigan, has paid for robocalls by Sen. Dick Durbin and AFL-CIO President Mike Carrigan that endorse Gronemeyer's opponent, Jayne Mazzotti of Taylorville.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing from the south lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on November 21, 2017. President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing from the south lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on November 21, 2017.
U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Illinois, says the watchdog agency, created by the Dodd-Frank Financial Regulatory Reform Bill, has overstepped its mission under its current director, Richard Cordray. "The intention of those who pushed this in through the Dodd-Frank legislation was to make it a completely unaccountable bureau," Hultgren said.
One in three Illinois residents have been impacted by the opioid epidemic, but many still aren't concerned about prescription painkillers posing a danger to their families. Full story .
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With some Members of Congress talking about removing the tax exemption for municipal bonds as part of larger tax reform measures, the public power community must ensure that lawmakers understand all the benefits that flow from tax-exempt municipal bonds. In 2017, the American Public Power Association has ramped up advocacy efforts to maintain the tax exemption for municipal bonds.
The rough outline the administration released on Wednesday said all deductions would be eliminated except for those from charitable donations and mortgage payments. One of the deductions that faces the chopping block is the state and local tax deduction .
A cardboard cut-out of Rep. Roger Williams leans against the microphone at the mock town hall in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. As people flood town halls during the Congressional recess to register their outrage over President Donald Trump's right-wing agenda, many members of Congress are apparently attempting to duck the public outcry by refusing to hold any town halls at all.
After hearing from Governor Rauner and Congressman Adam Kinzinger , the state convention got down to business - with the first order of business electing their National Committeeman and Committeewoman. DeMonte told those gathered that she's working on party efforts to defunding Planned Parenthood, stop the overreach of Title 9 - likely reference to Obama's recent transgender bathroom order - and an effort to stop Christian genocide worldwide.