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Tough Task ahead More fiscal clashes loom for lawmakers as 113th Congress opens
County Board duties in place Questions on rules cause confusion for committee vote By KEVIN P. CRAVER
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio swears in members of the 113th Congress on Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington. “At $16 trillion and rising, our national debt is draining free enterprise and weakening the ship of state,” the Ohio Republican said during the ceremony. By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press WASHINGTON – A new Congress opened for business Thursday to confront long-festering national problems, deficits and immigration among them, in an intensely partisan and crisis-driven era of divided government. “The American dream is in peril,” said House Speaker John Boehner, re-elected to his post despite a mini-revolt in Republican ranks. Moments after grasping an oversized gavel that symbolizes his authority, Boehner implored the assembly of newcomers and
Sen. Mark Kirk (right), R-Ill., is hugged Thursday by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Capitol Hill in Washington after he walked up the steps to the Senate. Kirk returned to the Senate after suffering a major stroke last year.
veterans in the 113th Congress to tackle the nation’s heavy burden of debt at long last. “We have to be willing – truly willing – to make this right.” Also on the two-year agenda is the first significant effort at an overhaul of the tax code in more than a quarter century. Republicans and Democrats alike say they want to chop at a thicket of existing tax breaks and use the resulting revenue to reduce rates. There were personal milestones aplenty as the winners of last fall’s races swore an oath of office as old as the republic.
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Manzullo reflects on last day in Congress By JEFF ENGELHARDT
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dthomas@shawmedia.com Don Manzullo’s last second representing Illinois’ 16th Congressional District was a second before noon Thursday. A second after noon, he had a new job. “I had a two-second break,” he
said. Manzullo, a 68-year-old former Republican congressman who has represented much of McHenry County for two decades, will draw upon his experience as the new president and CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America. Manzullo described KEIA as a nonprofit policy institute that will “bring the countries together on
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Term: 1993 to 2013 Alma mater: American University; Marquette University Law School Preceded by: John Cox Succeeded by: Adam Kinzinger
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Sarah E. Frye, 32, also known as Sarah E. Weed, who was listed on the McHenry County sheriff’s Top Ten Fugitive List, has been caught in Arkansas. She pleaded guilty in 2004 to retail theft and endangering the life or health of a child. Her probation was later revoked and a warrant issued for her arrest, but she had disappeared. for more, see page B1.
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economic and political issues.” The institute states its mission is “to broaden and deepen understanding among Americans and Koreans about the U.S.-Korea alliance, the value of the two countries’ bilateral relationship and the issues the two countries face.”
WOODSTOCK – If Thursday’s approval of committee assignments was an indicator, the learning curve of the new McHenry County Board could be steep. Its 14-7 vote to accept committee assignments – the only action item on the agenda – survived a challenge alleging the assignments as presented violated the County Board’s own rules. The vote to approve then required two subsequent motions and votes because of confusion as to whether members actually approved committee assignments or a calling of the question to stop debate. Board members approved the committee structure hammered out last month by new Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, and the aptly named C o m m i t t e e o n more Committees she assembled. The Read a group, made up of complete list of the chairwoman the new County and one member Board commitfrom each of the tee members on County Board’s PAGE B3. six districts, is convened after every November election to adjust memberships in the 11 standing committees in which most of county government’s work gets done. The sheer number of new members – nine of the board’s 24 members are freshmen – prompted the committee to give the chairmanships of three committees to newcomers. That, in turn, prompted Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard, to point out Thursday that board rules state that chairmanships must go to members who have served on the committee for at least a year prior. “I would expect that we would abide by our own rules,” Evertsen said. However, the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, after a brief recess, pointed out that the rule says the board shall do so “to the extent practical.” Given the number of new members, Civil
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