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Shimkus: Work Piling Up Already
(IRN)-There's more than just grandstanding going on among the representatives and senators on Capitol Hill. U. S. Rep. John Shimkus says 2011 is off to a busy start.

"We've cast a couple of votes on cutting spending," said Shimkus during a Springfield tour. "We're going to do another one on addressing the budget reconciliation. Committees just got organized this week. We're starting to schedule our hearing processes and the possibility of legislation. So I think you can look at the first week of February as the bell sounding; let's get back to normal work."

As for anybody thinking that the atmosphere will change after the Tucson shootings, Shimkus says he's never promised that; the 19th Century propaganda in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows the political process has always been a bare-knuckles business.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
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