Mike Bost

The longtime Republican lawmaker, who chairs the Veterans Affairs Committee and sits on the Agriculture Committee, said Republicans are willing to negotiate with Democrats on the debt ceiling.

While U.S. Reps. Mike Bost and Nikki Budzinski are in lockstep with their parties, Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois’ 15th District is one of 20 GOP members not voting for Kevin McCarthy for House speaker.

It’s campaign season, but the United States representatives also have to govern. See the legislation the U.S. representatives have introduced during their current terms.

Two Republicans will fight to represent a horseshoe-shaped district that takes in parts of the Metro East and the Quincy area.

Bush was one of six Democrats who voted against the federal infrastructure legislation, which President Joe Biden is expected to sign.

The legislation would preserve and emphasize the culture and history of those who built “America’s First City.”

Incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, has won his bid for re-election in Illinois’ 12th Congressional District.

At least 15,400 people in the southern Illinois 12th Congressional District are enrolled in the Affordable Care Act. And nearly 20,000 use the Marketplace to buy insurance in the 13th Congressional District. Voters will have to decide whether they trust Republican lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the ACA, or if it’s safer to elect Democrats who have vowed to protect and improve the existing act.

Between an iron fence and temporary barricades while holding signs that said “Planned Parenthood hurts women,” “Stop Abortion Now” and “Shut them down,”…