"We were concerned that the Democrats would take the bill and change it so it conformed to their more socialist agenda and then try to paint it as a Republican bill," said the bill's co-sponsor, Glenn Hall, R-Grain Valley.
Rep. Glenn Hall, R-Grain Valley, is co-sponsor of the defeated bill and member of the committee that killed it. He said the bill's 24-month time limitation was what committee members didn't like. With similar language on the new GOP welfare reform attempt, "I will say it's an uphill fight to get it through the committee," Hall said.
Glenn Hall, R-Grain Valley, argues this dependency could be lessened by increasing recipients' responsibilities and by putting a limit on the amount of time recipients are eligible for payments.
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