Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, July 6, 2017.
Illinois house delays override vote on Rauner veto until Thursday, depending on attendance
Illinois house speaker Michael Madigan has scheduled the house’s expected override vote of Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of a state budget plan for Thursday. The vote had been expected earlier, but wasn’t called due to low attendance Tuesday and Wednesday after 14 straight days of session for the Illinois General Assembly. “I can’t answer for every member who’s not here,” Democratic deputy majority leader Lou Lang told AP. “If they were all here, this would have been done already.” With the help of 15 Republican legislators, the Illinois senate overrode Rauner’s veto Tuesday, and if the house follows suit, the budget plan and tax increase will become law, at last putting an end to the budget impasse that started in 2015. [Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report]
