Illinois State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Lake Barrington)
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Recent News About Illinois State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Lake Barrington)
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McLaughlin on legislator pay raises: ‘I want to apologize to the taxpayer’
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) expressed outrage at the legislator pay raises included in the $50.4 billion budget signed June 8, emphasizing that being a legislator is a part-time job.
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McLaughlin: 'Why is everything costing so much more these days?'
Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Lake Barrington) expressed his response to the newly approved budget and increasing expenses in Illinois via a Facebook post on May 30.
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McLaughlin on high state taxes: 'Illinois' combined state and local tax rate of nearly 15.1% is the highest' in US
Illinois state Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) took to social media to call attention to a recent WalletHub survey.
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McLaughlin on Illinois' high unemployment rate: 'Our state's high taxes and bad public policies drive employers away'
Illinois' unemployment rate ranked second to last in the country for the month of December, with only the state of Nevada faring worse.
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McLaughlin cosponsors 'bills calling for the repeal of the Safe-T Act and for the restoration of monetary bail'
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Lake Barrington, said this week that he has signed on to cosponsor multiple bills that would repeal the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act and restore cash bail.
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McLaughlin on Illinois taxes: 'If tax relief is such a great idea today then why don’t we make it permanent?'
Martin McLaughlin, candidate for state representative in the 52nd District, recently had a chance to voice his opinion on the issue of high taxes in Illinois.
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McLaughlin: 'The Safe-T Act puts all of our families, businesses, police, and communities at significant risk'
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) is calling out Democratic lawmakers over the Safe-T Act.
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'My parental rights don't end there,' McLaughlin speaks out against new sex education standards in schools
While Illinois Democrats were focused on updating standards for schools that teach sex education, test scores show less than half of students in the Prairie State can read at grade level.
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McLaughlin on governor's handling of fraudulent unemployment claims: 'Sadly, in Illinois, the buck stops nowhere'
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) has taken aim at the Pritzker administration for failing to properly handle fraudulent unemployment claims.
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McLaughlin: 'School boards need to exert control and local authority representing their communities'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 818 into law in August 2021, requiring all K-12 schools that teach sexual education to align their curriculum with national standards, but Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Lake Barrington) is opposing this alignment.
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McLaughlin on elimination of cash bail: 'We need to make crime illegal again'
Governor J.B. Pritzker signed policies that ended Illinois Judge’s ability to set cash bails before a defendant’s first court appearance, a victory for criminal reform and grabbed Republican attention.
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State Rep. Martin McLaughlin: 'I am running for re-election to fix our state'
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Lake Barrington) said he is running for re-election in order to work towards improving the state's business climate and other priorities.
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McLaughlin: 'Illinoisans need real relief to recover from record-high inflation and our state's burdensome taxes'
The Illinois Family Relief Plan is putting $1.83 billion toward tax relief on groceries, gas and properties. Not everyone thinks it goes far enough.
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McLaughlin on inflation in Illinois: 'Things are tough for people and there's no relief in sight'
Illinois State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) recently voiced his opinion on the issue of soaring levels of inflation and what it could mean for Illinois families
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McLaughlin criticizes FY 2023 budget: 'We received the final budget draft in the House Chamber at 4 a.m.'
Illinois State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) opposes the $46.5 billion Fiscal Year 2023 budget that recently advanced in the House and the Senate.
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Representative McLaughlin: 'Democrats promised a sweeping anti-crime package this session, but there's been little said and even less done'
Representative Martin McLaughlin took to Facebook about Illinois Democrats’ lack of criminal justice reform efforts.
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McLaughlin: Vote 'completely unfair to the new LIG and those of us who still believe that laws matter'
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Lake Barrington) is blasting the way Democratic lawmakers are seeking to fill the vacant Legislative Inspector General (LIG) post as yet another assault on the letter-of-the-law.
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McLaughlin: 'Still no answers forthcoming as the scope of fraudulent claims'
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) is still waiting to learn the specifics about how much the state paid in fraudulent unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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'No thank you': McLaughlin pans 'any means necessary' in Illinois COVID-19 laws
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) is pitching in against a recently introduced bill that would allow for politicians to take “any means necessary” to control Covid and other public health issues.
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McLaughlin: Illinois law enforcement deserves ‘a shout out’ during appreciation day
An Illinois state representative who is active in his community as a small businessman and volunteer marked National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day on Sunday, Jan. 9.