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Illinois Senate Minority Leader Frank Watson, Illinois Congressman John Shimkus, and many Illinois state legislators from both parties also called for Blagojevich to resign. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] House Speaker Madigan thought that it would be inappropriate to make a statement calling for a resignation or a statement supporting an impeachment because he ...
The most recent impeachment of a state governor occurred on January 14, 2009, when the Illinois House of Representatives voted 117–1 to impeach Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges; [195] he was subsequently removed from office and barred from holding future office by the Illinois Senate on January 29.
The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly.The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 representatives elected from individual legislative districts for two-year terms with no limits; redistricted every 10 years, based on the 2010 U.S. census ...
The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history.
The new indictment still describes Trump’s January 2, 2021, phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where Trump said he wanted "to find 11,780 votes" but added context to ...
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Illinois State Police said they are continuing to investigate the case. Drug conspiracy indictment A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel on a ...
On May 22, 1856, Senator Charles Sumner was savagely beaten down to the floor of the Senate chamber with a gold-knobbed cane by Representative Preston Brooks after Sumner delivered a fiery oration against slavery. [21] In 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House chamber, wounding five Members of Congress. [22]