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Restoring Illinois’ Financial Health

• Led effort to pass first fiscally responsible and balanced state budget in decades
• Co-sponsored meaningful pension reform
• Sponsored bill to repeal Lame Duck tax increases
• Chief co-sponsor of Budget Review Act
• Sponsored PAYGO (Pay As You Go) legislation requiring lawmakers to offset any new spending with cuts in other areas

Implementing Meaningful Ethics Reform

• Principal sponsor banning politicians from putting their names and faces on taxpayer funded signs
• Chief sponsor with Rep. Sandra Pihos of legislation to end the controversial, unfunded and abused General Assembly tuition waivers
• Supports term limits to prevent “career politicians” that serve for decades.

Protecting Our Children and Seniors

• Authored law expanding availability of life-saving allergy medicine for school children who suffer from severe allergies
• Primary sponsor of several bills increasing homestead exemption protecting seniors from rising property
• Sponsor of historic education reforms to improve school accountability and teacher evaluations
• Lead co-sponsor of ‘Caylee’s Law’making it a criminal offense to fail to promptly report a child’s death or disappearance

Creating Jobs and Improving Illinois Business Climate

• Only House Republican to support worker’s comp reform saving Illinois businesses hundreds of millions of dollars on rates and promoting job creation
• Lead sponsor to boost start-up capital for emerging tech companies by allowing State to invest in venture capital funds that attract and support tech entrepreneurs
• Chief co-sponsor of Illinois Enterprise Commission Act, requiring review and repeal of fees, laws and regulations driving jobs away from Illinois