{"id":677089,"date":"2010-02-26T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/index.php\/sen-steans-home\/710-senator-steans-provides-a-legislative-update"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:04:36","slug":"senator-steans-provides-a-legislative-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677089","title":{"rendered":"Senator Steans Provides A Legislative Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 8px\" height=\"160\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.senatedem.ilga.gov\/images\/stories\/2010\/Steans-022410br0095-022610.jpg?resize=225%2C160\" \/>Budget<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate convened a joint appropriations committee hearing on the budget deficit.&nbsp; We received budget projections from the Governor&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget and the bi-partisan Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.&nbsp; Four different policy groups also provided an overview of the budget crisis and proposed solutions &#8211; The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, the Civic Committee, the Civic Federation and the Illinois Policy Institute.&nbsp; All stressed that <?xml:namespace prefix = st1><br \/>\n<st1:state><br \/>\n<st1:place>Illinois<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> is on a precipice of financial disaster with a $13 billion projected budget deficit for the next fiscal year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget The Senate convened a joint appropriations committee hearing on the budget deficit.&nbsp; We received budget projections from the Governor&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget and the bi-partisan Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.&nbsp; Four different policy groups also provided an overview of the budget crisis and proposed solutions &#8211; The Center for Tax and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Q8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}