{"id":308868,"date":"2010-02-11T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a88e8a4c970b"},"modified":"2010-02-11T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:09:42","slug":"lawmakers-allow-quinn-to-delay-budget-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/308868","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers allow Quinn to delay budget address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Michelle Manchir <\/em>at 2:24 p.m.; <strong>updated at 4:10 p.m.<\/strong><br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>SPRINGFIELD &#8212; Gov. Pat Quinn today received official permission from state lawmakers to delay his budget address until March 10 and give the public a chance to weigh in on state spending.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>House Democrats led the 65-44 vote pushing back Quinn&#8217;s speech by three weeks. Quinn quickly signed the legislation this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, who narrowly won a brutal primary election last week, has said he wants to promote &quot;interaction<br \/>\nand transparency&quot; by asking lawmakers and interested citizens to give<br \/>\nwritten recommendations about how the state should spend taxpayer<br \/>\nmoney. He wants to post information about the state&#8217;s financial status<br \/>\non a state Web site near the end of this month, seeking the input for the<br \/>\nbudget year that begins July 1.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans today said the move is a useless delay in passing a working budget.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The governor can be transparent anytime he wants to. He doesn&#8217;t need a law to do that,&quot; said Sara Wojcicki, a spokeswoman for Republican House leader Tom Cross of Oswego.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Senate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/02\/quinn-seeks-to-put-off-unveiling-budget-plan-by-three-weeks.html\">approved Quinn&#8217;s request<\/a> on Wednesday after a similar partisan debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Michelle Manchir at 2:24 p.m.; updated at 4:10 p.m.SPRINGFIELD &#8212; Gov. Pat Quinn today received official permission from state lawmakers to delay his budget address until March 10 and give the public a chance to weigh in on state spending. House Democrats led the 65-44 vote pushing back Quinn&#8217;s speech by three weeks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}