Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2018 Contact: Dee Donavanik Statement by NOW President Toni Van Pelt By voting to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the Illinois Senate has recognized what women everywhere know to be true. We still need the ERA. In fact, we need it more than ever. It’s unconscionable that[Read More…]
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FDA Takes Step to Protect Consumers Against Dietary Supplements Containing Dangerously High Levels of Pure Caffeine
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—April 13, 2018 Contact: Theresa Eisenman Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took an important step to better protect consumers from the dangers of highly concentrated and pure caffeine products. These products present a significant public health threat because of the high risk that they will be[Read More…]
Democratic Party of Illinois to Hold Organizational Meeting on April 23
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –(ENEWSPF)—April 13, 2018 By: Jon Maxson Democratic Party of Illinois Chairman Michael J. Madigan announced today that the party would be holding an organizational meeting for the State Central Committee on Monday, April 23 in Springfield. “Voters in the March primary elected new members of the State Central[Read More…]
Uncategorized Rep. Robin Kelly Votes No on GOP’s Trojan Horse to Destroy Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: James Lewis, Communications Director, Congresswoman Robin Kelly Today, Congresswoman Robin Kelly released this statement after voting NO on the Republicans’ so-called “Balanced Budget” constitutional amendment, that’s nothing more than a veiled attack on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Americans who paid into these[Read More…]
Reps. Kelly, Esty, Van Hollen, Murphy, Blumenthal & Adams to Introduce Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act
Would incentivize states to require a permit to purchase handguns WASHINGTON, D.C. – (ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: James Lewis, Communications Director, Congresswoman Robin Kelly Today, U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-2), Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty (CT-05), along with Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and[Read More…]
NORML Responds as Ex-House Speaker Signs On With Marijuana Industry Leader
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: NORML It has been announced that former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, along with former Republican Governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld, have joined the Board of Advisors for Acreage Holdings, a multi-state corporation operating in the medical and recreational marijuana space. The company[Read More…]
NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Planet-Hunting Mission
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Felicia Chou, and Joshua Finch On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch no earlier than 6:32 p.m. EDT Monday, April 16. Prelaunch mission coverage will begin on NASA Television and the agency’s[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Joins 10 Other AGs in Opposition to Dept. of Labor Program to Offer Amnesty to Labor Law Violators
New PAID Program Encourages Violators to Require Employees to Waive State Law Protections – Like Higher Minimum Wage Levels – in Exchange for Payment of Overdue Wages Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Yesterday, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, along with 10 other Attorneys General, sent a letter to U.S. Department[Read More…]
Statement from IL House Speaker Madigan On FY 2019 Budget
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Jon Maxson House Speaker Michael J. Madigan issued the following statement Thursday, following a meeting between legislative leaders and the governor: “Today I advised the governor and the other leaders that we are already at work on the Fiscal Year 2019 budget with our[Read More…]
A Tale Of Two CT Scanners — One Richer, One Poorer
California—(ENEWSPF)—April 12, 2018 By: Alison Kodjak, NPR News Benjamin Hynden, a financial adviser in Fort Myers, Fla., hadn’t been feeling well for a few weeks last fall. He’d had pain and discomfort in his abdomen. In October, he finally made an appointment to see his doctor about it. “It wasn’t[Read More…]
