Senator Haine responds to the budget address

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois State Senator Bill Haine (D-Alton) released the following statement in response to Governor Bruce Rauner’s budget address on Wednesday:

"There are so many issues in which we can agree upon,” said Haine. “It is time to sit down and find common ground for funding for our students, our universities, Alzheimer’s patients and those who are feeling the real impact of this budget impasse. It is time we work together to solve this budgetary crisis and work toward a caring and compassionate state.”