This coming week Illinois legislators are back in session. Get ready. | Fred Klonsky

This coming week Illinois legislators are back in session. Get ready. | Fred Klonsky:

This coming week Illinois legislators are back in session. Get ready.

by Fred Klonsky

From Rich Miller:

As it turns out, the Illinois House Democrats didn’t need the Republicans to put 30 votes on a significant pension reform bill.There’s been worry for at least two years that the Democrats would have to rely heavily on the Republicans to get anything out of the chamber and that may be even 30 Republican votes – half the required 60-vote majority – wouldn’t be enough to pass a pension reform bill.
But 41 House Democrats voted for a bill in March that severely whacked retirees’ annual cost of living increases. Just 25 Republicans voted for the bill –