By Benjamin Cox on May 12, 2021 at 7:13pm
Local Congressmen Rodney Davis and Darin LaHood have not said whether they voted to oust Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney as the House Republican Conference Chair this morning. Cheney was removed early this morning in a closed-ballot vote by colleagues.
House Republican leadership had said in previous weeks that Cheney’s open fight with former-President Donald Trump had become a distraction and that she should not serve in a leadership position in which the job is to unify the party as it seeks to combat current President Joe Biden’s agenda, as well as hopes of winning back the U.S. House in the 2022 elections.
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By Benjamin Cox on April 26, 2021 at 8:25am
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th District Congressman Darin LaHood is co-sponsoring re-introduced legislation to allow for broader investment in public sector employment retirement programs.
The bipartisan Public Service Retirement Fairness Act would allow public sector employees like teachers, nonprofit employees, and public servants to have access to diversified investments in their 403(b) defined-contribution retirement-savings plans. 403(b) plans are similar to 401(k) plans offered in the private sector, but they cannot invest in Collective Investment Trusts.
The new law would allow public sector employee retirement programs to invest in the CITs, which typically have lower fees and more flexibility than the types of annuity contracts and mutual funds that the 403(b) plans are limited to investing in by law. Due to compound interest and higher fees, it can allegedly cost public servants thousands of dollars in retirement savings.
By Jeremy Coumbes on April 3, 2021 at 6:00am
18th District Congressman Darin LaHood and 13th District Representative Rodney Davis both urged Illinoisans to get the vaccine as they toured separate COVID Vaccination Distribution sites in Central Illinois this week.
The two GOP Congressmen representing central and west-central Illinois are urging constituents to get the vaccine. 18
th District Congressman Darin LaHood and 13
th District Representative Rodney Davis both toured COVID Vaccination Distribution sites in Central Illinois this week.
LaHood toured the Morgan County Vaccine Clinic at Passavant Area Hospital in Jacksonville on Wednesday. Passavant CEO Dr. Scott Boston told the congressman during his tour that the biggest obstacle facing their efforts now is not so much vaccine availability, it’s vaccine hesitation.