Progress Illinois

Back in March, we noted that Sen. Dick Durbin's foreclosure prevention bill -- passed after some cosmetic changes
in the House -- might not get a full vote in the Senate until after the
Easter recess. At issue was the scope of the bill, which aims to allow
bankruptcy ...

Last night, Stephen Colbert devoted his "The Word" segment to Rep. Luis Gutierrez's Payday Loan Reform Act of 2009, which we've repeatedly covered.  Watch it:

Oof.  Colbert's criticism strikes at one of the more frustrating aspects of Gutierrez's support ...

Contrary to what conservative blowhards like Glenn Beck
might have you believe, President Obama is still very popular 100 days
into his first term. The latest Pew Center for the People and Press
survey gives
Obama above a 60 percent approval rating nationally and ...

In February, the Sargent Shriver National Center
on Poverty Law released a congressional scorecard grading federal legislators on their support of
anti-poverty policies in 2008. While plenty of Illinois Democrats scored well (eight earned an A+), their Republican colleagues ...