Pat Hughes from the Liberty Justice Center joined Dan and Amy with an update on the Mark Janus case. Janus is a child-support specialist who works for the State of Illinois and has been forced to pay thousands of dollars to a union just to be allowed to do the work he loves. He’s asking the Court to declare that forcing him to pay union fees violates his First Amendment rights of free speech and free association.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Thursday that he would reimburse the government for a fraction of the costs of his flights on charter planes in recent months, after coming under sharp criticism from members of both parties for the expensive practice. Fox News Anchor Bret Baier joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the Secretary’s pricey travel bills, and the debate over tax reform brewing in Congress:
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Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson joined Dan and Amy to talk about the brewing debate over tax reform in congress:
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Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday shocked many on both sides of the aisle when he signed into law a measure to expand taxpayer funding of abortions and ensure the procedure remains legal in Illinois. Illinois State Representative Peter Breen joined Dan and Amy with reaction:
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Attached to the historic education funding reform bill passed both by the Illinois House and Senate is a new five-year pilot program designed to take donated funds from individuals or corporations and use them to subsidize student tuition for low-income families at private schools. Dan Kuehn is a research associate for the Urban Institute and co-author of a study on the effects of school choice on college enrollment and graduation:
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Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday signed into law a bill that will expand the public funding of abortion in Illinois, including to Medicaid recipients, a decision that already has conservatives sounding the death knell for his reelection campaign. The move immediately increases the chances that the first-term governor will get a primary challenge and raises doubts about whether he can motivate a Republican base in a general election.
In a speech on the House floor upon returning to Congress for the first time since he was shot on the baseball field in Virginia three months ago, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise said the shooting “strengthened” his faith in God and he was touched by the outpouring of love and support by not just his colleagues and Americans around the country, but foreign leaders as well.
An Elgin school board member defended comments she made on her personal Facebook page supporting NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem and equating the American flag with toilet paper.
John Podhoretz: Democrats’ best hope for 2020: Oprah.
In an era in which states are barring politicians from lobbying their former colleagues until after a cooling off period – a year in most cases—an investigation found three current elected officials in Illinois working as lobbyists.