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Franks proposes gun bill Would end FOID card rule for young adults By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
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Centegra Health System’s clinical nurse specialist Sarah Ferguson (left), registered nurse Kathleen Grivas and Tiffanie Young, a registered dietitian and Centegra’s diabetes educator, meet Thursday at the diabetes center in Woodstock to discuss patients.
Number of Ill. adults with disease has doubled since 1994 By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com All Mike Tryon had to eat during a Huntley business expo in 2005 was three tacos dressed with some cilantro and onion – an innocent meal that he thought posed no risk. But a few hours later, the Republican state representative from Crystal Lake stopped
by Centegra Health System’s post in the expo to have his blood sugar checked. They informed him that his blood sugar hovered in the 370 range, and that he needed to see a doctor right away. Tryon later would be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, an increasingly common disease in the United States that Tryon says can often be overwhelm-
ing and challenging to manage day after day. “I’m real open about it because, hopefully, I can use the position I am in to affect change and be more of a model to people who have it,” he said. Tryon has made diabetes a cornerstone of his policy work during his eight years in the Illinois House, even starting the first legislative diabetes cau-
cus in the nation. The public outreach and focus on diabetes has become more common across the nation, as health departments and health care groups in the United States recognize National Diabetes Month in November. Since 1994, the number of
Adults between 18 and 21 would no longer need parents’ written permission to possess firearms and ammunition under a local lawmaker’s proposal. House Bill 3762, filed Friday by state Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, lowers to 18 the age that parental permission is required as a condition for obtaining a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card. Under current law, residents under age 21 must produce a notarized affidavit from a parent or guardian, who cannot themselves be ineligible to have the FOID card required by law to possess firearms and ammunition. Franks said he was surprised when he learned from upset constituents that college-aged adults had the extra requirement. He called the extra burden unnecessary and an impediment to law-abiding citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights that does nothing to keep criminals from obtaining guns. “If you’re 18 and able to join the military and defend our country, I don’t think it
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On the Net Read the text of House Bill 3762, which will eliminate parental consent for adults aged 18 to 21 to own firearms and ammunition in Illinois, at www.ilga. gov. Learn more about the state’s new concealed-carry law and find lists of certified instructors in your area at www.isp. state.il.us/ firearms/ccw.
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Dems reach breaking point on filibusters By CHARLES BABINGTON The Associated Press WASHINGTON – As Democrats watched Senate Republicans use filibuster powers to thwart more and more of President Barack Obama’s agenda and nominees, they wondered how much worse it could get. They finally reached a breaking point this past week when party leaders concluded that what they called GOP obstruc-
tion by furious Republicans in order to let Obama, a Democrat, do things many of his predecessors typically did with minimal fuss: fill executive jobs and vacant judgeships. “They’re at peace with the idea that this president, along with future presidents, deserve to, with rare exceptions, put their own people in place,” said Jim Manley, who spoke Friday with his former boss, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
tion had made a mockery of American democracy. The Senate vote Thursday to curb some filibuster powers, after years of hesitation, will go down as a singular moment. Historians may view it as an inevitable step in the relentless march of partisanship, which severely has damaged the ability of Congress to conduct even routine business. Senate Democrats opened themselves up to future retalia-
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D-Nev. “The current situation was untenable,” Manley said, “and something had to change.” The final straw for Democrats came when Republicans used the filibuster, which allows 41 of the 100 senators to block almost any action, to bar Obama nominees from three vacancies on a powerful federal appeals court. Republican
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