Senate passes bipartisan budget compromise

State Senator Jacqueline Collins issued the following statement today as the Illinois Senate passed a bipartisan budget compromise which included funding for numerous social services and after school programs originally cut in the governor’s budget proposal earlier this year:

“Today’s agreement came out of a shared spirit of compromise and good will which our state has sorely missed,” Collins said. “This budget is balanced and makes its reductions and increases in a responsible manner that seeks to do right by the most vulnerable. I urge my colleagues in the House to approve it and the governor to sign it.”