STATE OF ILLINOIS 88th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 47th Legislative Day April 22, 1993 Speaker Currie: "Before we go to the roll call, the Chair has two announcements. First, Democratic management is offering submarine sandwiches, the Democratic Representatives expected to arrive shortly after 7:00 in the Speaker's conference room. The second announcement from the Chair is that you have ten minutes, eight minutes in which to turn in your change of vote sheets on Agreed Bill List 2."

April 22, 1993: During a late night in a more civilized era, Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie announced from the chair that both submarine sandwiches and an agreed bill list were available

is this a breakfast i see before me
the kibble towards my tum
come let me chomp thee
i have thee not and yet i taste thee still

Gov. Pritzker's BUILD plan, a slate of six bills to address Illinois' housing crisis, is going to a Senate hearing this week!

Learn about the package and contact your legislators to support here: buildforil.org

STATE OF ILLINOIS 85th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 94th Legislative Day April 21, 1988 Speaker Breslin: "The lady from Cook, Representative Currie." Currie: "Thank you, Madam Speaker and Members of the House. We don't have a State Department but we do have a House State Government Administration Committee which took more than eight hours of testimony on House Bill 1374 and the MacBride Principles. The charges made that this is intervention in foreign affairs rather than appropriate purview for the State of Illinois. I would remind the Members that the issue in House Bill 1374 are investments of Illinois Pension Funds, not the foreign relations of the Northern Irish Government. I think on the contrary, that the point of this Bill is to say to say to the British Government and to say Northern...to Northern Ireland that fair play, anti-discrimination, human rights, matter to the people of this country and to the people of the State of Illinois.

April 21, 1988: Responding to claims that adopting the MacBride Principles was an inappropriate interference by Illinois in foreign affairs, Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie reminded the House that while they might not have a State Department, they did have a State Government Administration Committee.

youre not the boss of me sign

I do have on hand this Sun-Times editorial backing her bill to raise the default age of juvenile jurisdiction to include 17-year-olds. Which she passed.

I estimate this law alone has so far kept at least 30,000 Illinois youth out of adult court, preventing public, permanent adult felony convictions

This is what is in SB3164. There's nothing sinister "hiding in it." There are plenty of problems with transparency and process in the General Assembly. This is not an example of it.

Good rageclick content doesn't really do much for more effective advocacy.

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The biggest miscommunication is whoever runs this account not knowing how to read bills.

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This is not the e-bike bill, it's a different piece of legislation and these provisions were noted, objected to, and removed in an amendment a month and a half ago.

79TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION APRIL 17, 1975 SENATOR PARTEE: Thank you very much. Mr. President and members of the Senate, there's an old expression that you shouldn't swallow a gnat and strain at a camel or swallow a camel and strain at a gnat and that's what we're doing here this morning.

April 17, 1975: As the Senate vigorously debated a small supplemental appropriation for the Commission on the Status of Women, Senate President Cecil Partee tried to calm the chamber but couldn't quite get the expression right.

oh wow so it turns out the real deadline was in our hearts all along

Wonder if ol' Toby kept it going when he was elected to the appellate court later that year.

If you only read one thing today, it should really be this.

DATE: 4-16-74 GENERAL ASSEMBLY STATE OF ILLINOIS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Clerk Selcke: "Another thing, will the individual that is voting : for an individual that is not here, please refrain from this, because you're going to get them in trouble with the Comptroller and everybody else and I'm sure you're all full of Internal Revenue business, so please don't pull a guy's switch when a guy's not here, cause if the Roll Call shows he's here, he's going to get a check and that's going to screw up the whole works, so please, please don't pull anybody's switch that's not here and I'm particularly referring to Toby Barry's switch now. All right, now let's do it all over again and only pull your own switch."

April 15, 1974: A momentous day in the history of the Illinois House, as the new electronic voting system was used for the first time. Clerk Fred Selcke exhorted members to vote only their own switches, especially on attendance roll calls, a warning that has been scrupulously heeded to this day.

i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by hunger starving hysterical peckish
dragging themselves through the springfield streets at dawn looking for a tasty fix

STATE OF ILLINOIS 91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 30th Legislative Day April 15, 1999 SENATOR DEMUZIO: Thank you -- thank you, Mr. President. Is--is there a photo session today? I I heard we were going to... PRESIDENT PHILIP: There is a photo session today after the Session. That is correct. SENATOR DEMUZIO: Well, we're not invited for the photos. PRESIDENT PHILIP: Yeah. I think it's just on our side of the aisle. I'm sorry about that. SENATOR DEMUZIO: Well... PRESIDENT PHILIP: You notice we're wearing all wearing our blue shirts today?

April 15, 1999: Senate Republicans all wore blue shirts for a photo session. Senate Democrats were not invited.

hey everyone i know it will be a super hectic day just know that you are loved and that if you need to go outside for a breath of fresh air and to scream at some rabbits and call them assholes thats totally fine give them an extra scream for your old pal me

Putting that in the rules once I'm in charge

STATE OF ILLINOIS 90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 42nd Legislative Day April 14, 1997 Black: "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. I simply rise revise and extend the remarks of my good friend and colleague from the County of Cook, the City of Skokie, why do we want a Vehicle Bill go over there the Senate can fool with it? Ha ha. We're on to to you. Vote 'no'."

April 14, 1997: The inimitable Rep. Bill Black urged a "no" vote on a shell bill, wondering why the House would want to something over to the Senate to fool with.

some say the devil is dead
the devil is dead
the devil is dead
some say the devil is dead
and buried in killarney
more say he rose again
more say he rose again
more say he rose again
and joined the general assembly

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APRIL 9, 1975 Hanahan: "Mr. Speaker, ah... and Members of the House, I'm against this Amendment, but I'll be damned if somebody just removed it off of my desk and I haven't got a copy of it. I'd like to have a copy of it brought back to me for debate on this." Speaker Giorgi: "Mr. Lauer, will you explain the Amendment again so that he can ah.. collect his thoughts?"

April 9, 1975: Rep. Thomas Hanahan rose in opposition to an amendment but damned if someone didn't take his copy off his desk right before he spoke on it.

hi be careful not to churn and burn too much the best bills need only a light whipping and gentle bake or you are at serious risk of turning your lovely legislative soufflé into statutory pudding oh my god im so hungry

STATE OF ILLINOIS 93rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 31st Legislative Day 4/8/2003 PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR DEMUZIO) All right. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's going to be another very long day, so we ought to pay attention, be in our seats, or or we'll be here till midnight. SENATOR BURZYNSKI: Thank you. Is it State this should be in? southern Illinois or anything is it specific as to what part of the I mean, it's not like just towards and doesn't have anything to do with hunting or wearing shoes while hunting or anything like that? SENATOR J. JONES: No, it does not. SENATOR BURZYNSKI: Do you wear shoes when you hunt? curious about that. I didn't know. I I just was kind of SENATOR J. JONES: Well, it's a little different in Jefferson County than it is in Franklin County, where you originally came from. Yes, we do wear shoes.

April 8, 2003: The mild exasperation of presiding Sen. Vince Demuzio notwithstanding, Sen. John O. Jones endured hazing from Sen. Brad Burzynski and other colleagues as he presented his first bill. He confirmed that, at least in Jefferson County, people wear shoes when they hunt.

and therefore since I cannot have two breakfasts
to begin these fair springfield days
i am determined to prove a villain
and hate the idle rabbits of these days

STATE OF ILLINOIS 91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day April 7, 2000 Mulligan: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?" Speaker Hartke: "Sponsor will yield." Currie: "Reluctantly..." Speaker Hartke: "Reluctantly." Currie: "There have been a lot of questions and very little light has been added to this topic." Speaker Hartke: "Representative Mulligan." Mulligan: "Representative, when did you put this Amendment on, wasn't it April 4th?" Currie: "I think it was two days ago, but every day here seems like a year, so it could have been eons ago."

April 7, 2000: Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie grew weary of debating Cook County real estate assessment legislation.

tho much is taken much abides and tho
we are not now that strength which in old days
moved earth and heaven that which we are we are
one equal temper of heroic hearts
made weak by time and fate but strong in will
to snack to sup to gorge and not to yield

dang you look real good chicago attagal keep up the nice work

I'm right there with ya.

MARCH 27, 1973 GENERAL ASSEMBLY STATE OF ILLINOIS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES J. J. Wolf:"There's a ah... sheet on our desk. I assume all the Members have it. I don't know what's in it. It says 'sisterhood is powerful'. I thought we had a regulation that anytime we had this kind of stuff distributed on our desk, that the name of the distributor ought to be on it. And I don't know what it's about and I don't intend to read it until somebody has their name on it." A. Telcser: "Your point is well taken, Sir. Lady from DuPage, Representative Dyer." Dyer: "I would like to apologize to the Members of the House. I authorized the distribution of this material, and I'm sorry that in the photocopying, my signature was not on it. This was an oversight. I apologize, but I did authorize it and assume full responsibility and I hope you'll read it. It's good."

March 27, 1973: An irate Rep. JJ Wolf found a document on his desk that said "Sisterhood is Powerful" but bore no signature. He refused to read it until he knew who wrote it. Rep. Giddy Dyer confirmed it was from her, apologized for the lack of signature, and assured him it was good.

have a lovely week of being mad in different buildings i hope you keep living the dream but even more i hope you have a better dream i mean honestly it could be anything you could be an astronaut or finally eat the squirrel