Steve Rauschenberger
Steve Rauschenberger
Steve Rauschenberger served as a Republican member of the Illinois State Senate from 1993 to 2007...
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I've been a negotiator all my life - selling furniture is really helping people make decisions. Now I've got pretty strong respect in both chambers and on both sides of the aisle because the work I've done over the years on the budget, giving and taking, ultimately winning decisions.
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I don't think anyone has done as much as Peter has to change the tone and direction of politics in Illinois.
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We've had on the books programs in Illinois where children could join the health care program of their parents, and go to the same doctors and have the same kind of health care. It's too bad this governor couldn't implement any of those programs for the last three years.
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To rush this through in an election year doesn't seem to be in the best interest of these kids or the providers.
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Steve was a good Republican but more importantly he was a good, decent man, ... He had a big heart and was committed to big ideals. He will be greatly missed and the thoughts and prayers of the Rauschenberger family are with the Meyer family on this sad day.
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What he's going to do I think is stretch out the payment cycle. What he's going to do is essentially make the providers of the state of Illinois pay for it by paying them more re-imbursements and more slowly.
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You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.
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This administration has hypnotized some of the leadership in the active teachers unions by saying somehow we'll recover later. But the way this administration spends, we're not recovering anything at all.
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I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign. I mean, if there's one thing that's clear ... he knows more about his campaign organization than he knows about state government.
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The implementation of the streamlined agreement will allow states to recoup valuable resources that can, in turn, be put toward education, public safety, tax relief, or other pressing state needs.
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I do not believe he doesn't know anything about what's going on,
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This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.
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No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.
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You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.