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Joe McGraw handily defeated Scott Crowl in the Republican primary for the 17th Congressional District on Tuesday. He faces first-term Democratic congressman Eric Sorensen in the November election.
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There will be major progress this year toward the creation of an industrial park on the southeast side of Bloomington.
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U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood voted to move ahead with an investigation of potential impeachable offenses by President Biden. All House Republicans did so.
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A former central Illinois congressman is calling Florida congressman Matt Gaetz a narcissist who sowed chaos after Gaetz led the effort to unseat House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and warns the nation could face a government shutdown even after McCarthy sacrificed his speakership to avoid one.
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Members of both parties have increased the budget deficit in the last decade, U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood said Tuesday. And both major parties will have to participate in any successful effort to reduce it.
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Former state representative and Secretary of State candidate Dan Brady says he's considering a run for Congress. He would run in the central and western Illinois district held by first-term Democrat Eric Sorensen.
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Six Bloomington-Normal projects are included in a list of federal funding requests from the area's two members of Congress. Reps. Darin LaHood and Eric Sorensen have submitted requests for Community Project Funding for 2024.
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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth said she wants any police reforms to include a required independent review of police-involved shootings.
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Former central Illinois congressman Rodney Davis was not out of work long. Davis has been hired as a managing director for a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm.
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Environmental experts say the Restoring America's Wildlife Act would be the most significant piece of conservation legislation in the nearly half-century since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act of 1973.