House Speaker Michael Madigan discusses electric rates legislation during a rare “Committee of the Whole” joint session of the General Assembly in 2007. | Seth Perlman/AP file Among Illinois’ last remaining old-school Machine bosses, Michael Madigan saw an abrupt end
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New House Speaker Welch’s chief of staff tests positive for the coronavirus
Lawmakers and staff talk in the Illinois House during a lame duck session at the Bank of Springfield Center on Wednesday. | Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP “I am a confirmed positive,” Jessica Basham said in a statement
Trump trial pending, McConnell calls it ‘vote of conscience’
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. | AP The timing for the trial, the first of a president no longer in office, has not yet been
New Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch ‘whirlwind’ rise was years in the making
New Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch (right) thanks state Rep. Maurice West, D-Rockford, for his nominating speech. West is one of many young Black legislators Welch has mentored on his road to being elected speaker. | AP His successful
Photos capture notes from Trump ally leaving the White House on Friday.
President Trump, isolated and watching the clock count down on his time in the White House, spent some of it on Friday with the C.E.O. of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, who brought some notes with him. In photographs captured by Jabin
Gov. J.B. Pritzker could be in for a tough year
Newly elected House Speaker Chris Welch may have a more pointed relationship than his predecessor, Mike Madigan, with Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Rich Miller writes. | AP Photos Pritzker’s huge legislative success in 2019 was an aberration. It was a legislative
Feds: COVID-19 pandemic did not affect grand jury that indicted Madigan pals
House Speaker Mike Madigan listens to debate during a session of the Illinois House of Representatives at the Bank of Springfield Center in May. | Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP file Prosecutors respond to an unusual defense request,
Furious Pelosi calls out Capitol riot ‘punk’
House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) got emotional talking about the moment that angered her the most about the US Capitol riot. #Pelosi #CNN #News
He Just Wanted to Play Catch. They Got Relief From Troubled Times.
DALLAS — For a couple of days in early January, Frank Miller wandered around his house holding a baseball, practicing the grips for a slider, curve and cutter. He’d read a book about pitching and now he was obsessed. He
Senate Balances Impeachment Trial With an Incoming President
WASHINGTON — A day after the House impeached President Trump for inciting a violent insurrection at the Capitol, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate were developing plans on Thursday to try the departing president at the same time as they
‘Fuming’: How Trump is reacting to his second impeachment
Moving trucks were seen outside the White House grounds as the Trump administration makes arrangements to leave office. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports #CNN #News
State legislators told to quarantine after potential coronavirus exposure in Springfield this week
House members meet during the lame-duck session held at the Bank of Springfield Center, Wednesday. | Justin L. Fowler /The State Journal-Register via AP file Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch’s chief of staff notified members that someone who was
Lisa Murkowski Signals She is Open to Convicting Trump
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said on Thursday that the House had acted “appropriately” in impeaching President Trump, signaling possible support for convicting him at a Senate trial in a statement that called his actions “unlawful” and said that
From ‘kid from the woods’ to Mr. Speaker, Welch aims to engage legislators and inspire ‘every Black boy and girl out there’
House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch at the Bank of Springfield Center on Wednesday. | Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP Welch, 49, has already accomplished the first thing on his agenda, which was to sit down with staff and
Cheney facing internal backlash for impeachment vote as Republican rifts deepen over Trump.
A group of President Trump’s most strident allies in the House is calling on Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican, to resign from her leadership post after she voted to impeach Mr. Trump, dramatizing the bitter rifts
Trump and Aides Drove Family Separation at Border, Documents Say
WASHINGTON — President Trump and top aides in the White House aggressively pushed the get-tough policy that led migrant families to be separated at the border with Mexico, according to a top Justice Department official in a new report from
Speaker Welch charts ‘new direction’ for Illinois House
Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch addresses the Illinois House of Representatives, during its session at the Bank of Springfield Center on Wednesday. | Justin L. Fowler /The State Journal-Register, distributed by the Associated Press Welch, 49, has already accomplished the first
Trump impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (R) and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA) (L), alongside House Impeachment Manager Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO), look on as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds the signed article of impeachment during an engrossment
Your impeachment (x2!) questions, answered
Donald Trump just became the first president to ever be impeached by the House of Representatives two times. What comes next? In the latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza answers your most pressing questions. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan loses long-held leadership post
Rep. Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, center, is sworn in as state House speaker by Alan J. Greiman, a state appellate court judge, as his family stands by Madigan’s side at Sangamon Auditorium, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007, in Springfield, Ill. daughter, Ill.
At the crime scene in the House, Trump becomes the only president in U.S. history impeached twice
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., signs an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C. | Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images Said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “We cannot escape
U.S. Capitol Fills With National Guard Troops
The troops lined the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday as the House of Representatives prepared to vote to impeach President Trump one week after he incited a mob to overrun the complex.
‘Give me a large break here!’ CNN’s Dana Bash lambasts new Trump video
CNN’s Dana Bash and Gloria Borger react to a new video the White House released of President Trump calling for calm as the threat of new riots — which Trump said he’d been briefed on by the Secret Service —
Trump releases video after being impeached again
In a pre-recorded statement released by the White House, President Donald Trump called for calm but stopped short of conceding the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden or saying the election was conducted fairly. CNN cannot verify when the White
‘Trump a clear and present danger’: Pelosi makes impeachment official
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks for the first time following the historic House vote to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time, and signs the article of "incitement of insurrection." #Pelosi #CNN #Impeachment
Trump impeached after Capitol riot in historic second charge
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., returns to her leadership office after opening debate on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The House of Representatives is pursuing an article of
Led by Cheney, 10 House Republicans back Trump impeachment
In this image from video, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks as the House debates the objection to confirm the Electoral College vote from Pennsylvania, at the U.S. Capitol early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. | AP Nine other House Republicans also
Which Presidents Have Been Impeached?
In the first two centuries of the United States government, the House of Representatives conducted only two presidential impeachment proceedings. By the time the sun set on Wednesday, it had conducted three in just 25 years — with two of
House impeaches Trump 2nd time
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., returns to her leadership office after opening debate on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The House of Representatives is pursuing an article of
Why Remove or Impeach Trump Now?
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday was poised to impeach President Trump for a second time, a first in American history, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” one week after he egged on a mob of supporters that stormed the