Full Text of HR1395 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Representative Tom Cross | 4 | | of Oswego on his distinguished service to the people of the | 5 | | State of Illinois; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross has been a member of the | 7 | | Illinois House of Representatives since 1993 and has served | 8 | | this body with honor and distinction; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross was born on July 31, 1958 in | 10 | | Nashville, Tennessee; he grew up in the West Pullman | 11 | | neighborhood of Chicago before his family moved to Yorkville in | 12 | | Kendall County, where he graduated with Yorkville High School's | 13 | | Class of 1976; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross earned a Bachelor of Arts in | 15 | | Political Science from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1980 and | 16 | | a Juris Doctor from Samford University's Cumberland School of | 17 | | Law in 1983; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross married the former Genie | 19 | | Hovater in 1983, and through more than 31 years of marriage, | 20 | | have celebrated the births of 2 children, daughter, Reynolds | 21 | | and son, Hudson; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross was inspired to pursue a life | 2 | | of public service by his father, the Rev. Thomas Cross, Jr. and | 3 | | his mother, Ruth Cross, a public school teacher and principal; | 4 | | and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross was admitted to the Illinois | 6 | | Bar in 1983 and served as a prosecutor with the Kendall County | 7 | | State's Attorney's Office from 1984 to 1992; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross was first elected to the | 9 | | Illinois House of Representatives in 1992, rising to Assistant | 10 | | Republican Leader in 1999 before being elected by his caucus as | 11 | | House Republican Leader in 2002, a position he served in until | 12 | | September of 2013; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, As a member of the General Assembly, | 14 | | Representative Tom Cross was the sponsor of new laws that | 15 | | cracked down on fraud and abuse of the State's pension system; | 16 | | and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, As House Republican Leader, Representative Cross | 18 | | fought for budgetary honesty; he was a leading voice within the | 19 | | General Assembly in opposition to the pseudo-accounting | 20 | | tactics and fund sweeps used to repeatedly violate the | 21 | | constitutional requirement that the State balance its |
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross has been noted for his | 3 | | leadership on key children's health and safety initiatives, | 4 | | including enhanced research for juvenile diabetes, new | 5 | | safeguards to protect youth football players from concussions, | 6 | | and stronger reporting and monitoring requirements for child | 7 | | sex offenders; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross serves on the Board of | 9 | | Directors of the Illinois Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes | 10 | | Research Foundation; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross is a partner with the firm of | 12 | | Mahoney, Silverman, and Cross in Joliet; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Representative Cross has been honored by scores of | 14 | | organizations over the years in recognition of his outstanding | 15 | | service in the General Assembly, including the Illinois State's | 16 | | Attorneys Association, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of | 17 | | Police, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, the Illinois Farm | 18 | | Bureau, and the Illinois Health Care Association, among many | 19 | | others; therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 21 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| 1 | | we congratulate Representative Tom Cross on his outstanding | 2 | | service as a member of the General Assembly and as House | 3 | | Republican Leader from 2003 from 2013, and we wish him the best | 4 | | in all his future endeavors; and be it further
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 | | presented to Representative Cross and his family as an | 7 | | expression of our esteem and respect for our colleague and | 8 | | friend.
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