New Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch ‘Whirlwind’ Rise was Years in the Making
In 2016, Illinois lawmakers had a sticky problem that state Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch stepped up to solve, marking him as an up-and-comer in Springfield.
Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger had cut off state pay to legislators because of the General Assembly’s budget impasse with Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Munger’s move was popular. Why should legislators get paid, went the argument, when payments to state vendors were past due because the Legislature “wasn’t doing its job?”
The pay stoppage also happened to be blatantly illegal. The executive branch of government can’t extort the personal pocketbooks of the legislative branch to get its way.
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Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger had cut off state pay to legislators because of the General Assembly’s budget impasse with Gov. Bruce Rauner.
Munger’s move was popular. Why should legislators get paid, went the argument, when payments to state vendors were past due because the Legislature “wasn’t doing its job?”
The pay stoppage also happened to be blatantly illegal. The executive branch of government can’t extort the personal pocketbooks of the legislative branch to get its way.
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