State Rep. David McSweeney (R-Ill.)
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Recent News About State Rep. David McSweeney (R-Ill.)
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Rep. McSweeney pushes to reinstate Illinois death penalty
Illinois state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) thinks lawmakers in Springfied should get serious about fighting violent crime by bringing back the state death penalty.
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Rep. McSweeney condemns gas tax hike, which cost drivers $100 million more in first month
With news that Illinois taxpayers were forced to pay out $100 million more in gas taxes during the first month of last summer's new rate hike, Illinois state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) pointed out a bitter irony of the situation.
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Rep. McSweeney pushes for ban on red-light cameras, from which Sen. Sandoval has allegedly profited
Illinois state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) has renewed his fight for a ban on red-light cameras in the wake of reports that such a company is at the center of the federal probe of longtime state Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago).
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Rep. McSweeney insists that 'real pension reform' is Illinois' only hope of a fiscal turnaround
Illinois state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) points to a new Moody’s Investors Services report that designates the state’s rising pension debt to be the highest in the country as more proof that lawmakers need to rethink their approach to Illinois' fiscal crisis.
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'We need to cut taxes, not raise them,' Rep. McSweeney says of Pritzker's progressive plan
Illinois state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) remains as staunchly opposed to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax plan as he’s ever been.
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Pritzker signs bill requiring comptroller to maintain online checkbook
State Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) is celebrating the enactment of House Bill 313, a bill he sponsored that requires the state comptroller to maintain an online checkbook of the state’s finances.
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McSweeney calls for action to stop the violence in Chicago
Fifty-nine people were shot in Chicago over the Aug. 2 weekend, and seven of the victims died.
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Rep. McSweeney digs in for fight to save parental notification from Pritzker's 'radical agenda'
Veteran Illinois state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington) is ready to put his money where his mouth is in expressing his contempt for efforts to repeal the state’s parental notification abortion law.
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Rep. McSweeney says he will not accept a pay raise as part of Pritzker's new state budget
Republican state Rep. David McSweeney (Barrington Hills) leaves no doubt about where he stands on Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s new $40 billion state spending plan and all the other legislation that accompanies it.
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State Rep. McSweeney says Pritzker's graduated tax plan will hurt middle class, kill Illinois jobs
State Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) is convinced that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's graduated income tax plan will kill jobs for Illinois.
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Pritzker's claims in capital-improvements plan simply 'do not make sense,' McSweeney counters
Republican state Rep. David McSweeney (Barrington) does not mince words when voicing his opinion of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s capital-improvements plan and some of the details it includes.
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McSweeney says Pritzker's progressive tax plan is code for 'massive hike'
Republican state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) is not about to take the abuse he sees coming from Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax plan in silence.
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Rauner signs government consolidation law
Rep. McSweeney believes that the recent government consolidation law passed by Gov. Bruce Rauner will greatly benefit the state of Illinois.
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McSweeney files legislation repealing funding for Obama Presidential Center
Illinois state Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) recently filed legislation to stop $180 million in appropriations from going toward the Obama Presidential Center.
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Online sales tax ruling gives McSweeney more reasons not to approve of 2017 state budget
Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) is still finding reasons to be proud of standing in opposition to the 2017 state budget.
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McSweeney's school sexual predator bill garners 63 House sponsors
State Rep. David McSweeney's bill aimed at protecting students from predatory treatment from educators is now working its way through the legislature.
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From Prairie State Wire
Population falling, but Illinois government leaders agree to spend, borrow more
Illinois state government leaders say they will spend a record $38.5 billion and borrow an estimated $11.5 billion over the next year, according to a fiscal year 2019 budget plan approved by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
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Clock is ticking on federal funds for Quincy Veterans Home, McSweeney says
Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) insisted Gov. Bruce Rauner contact President Donald Trump about $265 million in funding to build new facilities and renovate older ones at the Quincy Veterans Home.
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Rauner has yet to respond to lawmakers' request for Quincy veterans home plan
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has yet to respond to a letter from a bipartisan group of Springfield lawmakers calling for him to release his plan for a new facility at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy.
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From Chambana Sun
McSweeney resolution urges U of I to sever ties with teacher who was a 1970s radical
If Rep. David McSweeney (R-Barrington Hills) has his way, former radical and terrorist, longtime fugitive and convicted murderer James William Kilgore will never again teach at the University of Illinois.