Full Text of HR0608 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The "shutdown" of the federal government is having | 3 | | a negative impact upon the United States economy between Wall | 4 | | Street and the State of Illinois; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, An estimated 800,000 federal employees have been | 6 | | sent home without pay, resulting in a daily economic daily loss | 7 | | of $300 million; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, According to the Leadership Council Southwestern | 9 | | Illinois in Edwardsville, the direct economic loss to the Metro | 10 | | East region is $855,000 daily from the furloughing of 3,000 | 11 | | workers at Scott Air Force Base; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, The Chicagoland area has an estimated 40,000 | 13 | | federal employees who have been furloughed during the | 14 | | "shutdown"; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Examples of the effects of the federal "shutdown" | 16 | | include the loss of the funding cushion in Cook County for the | 17 | | Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and | 18 | | Children, the closing of national parks, reductions in the | 19 | | funding of Veterans' Affairs programs, such as disability | 20 | | payments and the GI Bill, the loss of payments to the federal | 21 | | work-study program and Perkins Loan Programs, the furloughing |
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| 1 | | of safety inspectors at the Federal Aviation Administration, | 2 | | and the halting of most food and drug safety inspections by the | 3 | | Food and Drug Administration; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois is also seeing an impact | 5 | | regarding the federal funds in its State budget, such as | 6 | | furloughed employees at various State agencies, such as the | 7 | | Illinois Department of Employment Security and the Illinois | 8 | | Department of Human Services, human service programs being | 9 | | funded with reserve payments only, and economic development and | 10 | | business development grants being funded for a month, with the | 11 | | future service funds being uncertain while the "shutdown" | 12 | | exists; therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 | | we show our support for the addition, via amendment to the | 16 | | United States Constitution or other measures, of a double | 17 | | dissolution procedure that is similar to the process in the | 18 | | Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks where the | 19 | | dissolution of both parliament chambers is called and a full | 20 | | election is held; and be it further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the United States Senate and the | 22 | | United States House of Representatives to conclude the federal | 23 | | "shutdown" for the people of this great nation.
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