{"id":572636,"date":"2010-05-20T13:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ee0dd809970b"},"modified":"2010-05-20T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:37:37","slug":"lawmakers-to-return-to-capitol-next-week-to-work-on-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/572636","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers to return to Capitol next week to work on budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Monique Garcia<\/em> at 12:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers plan to return to Springfield early next week to take up the task of finishing the state budget.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>House members were sent a memo today saying they should return to Springfield Monday afternoon and plan to stay through Wednesday. Senators also are likely to return during that time.\n<\/p>\n<p>Unresolved is a spending plan for the upcoming budget year. Negotiations came to a halt earlier this month when Democratic lawmakers who control the General Assembly couldn&#8217;t reach an agreement. On the table are a host of unpalatable ideas for lawmakers facing election later this year, including skipping this year&#8217;s nearly $4 billion pension payment, increasing the cigarette tax by $1 a pack and making massive cuts elsewhere.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p><\/br>Democrats want to send a budget to Gov. Pat Quinn by May 31. Going past the deadline means Republicans gain a say in budget negotiations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Monique Garcia at 12:35 p.m. Lawmakers plan to return to Springfield early next week to take up the task of finishing the state budget.House members were sent a memo today saying they should return to Springfield Monday afternoon and plan to stay through Wednesday. Senators also are likely to return during that time. [&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-572636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572636","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=572636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}