(CAPITOL CITY NOW) – Just months into her tenure as an Illinois state representative, Regan Deering (R-Decatur) learned quickly: members of the superminority party at the Capitol do not get their way on the budget.

“When we think about our working families and our small business and big business owners,” Deering said during a virtual town hall Monday evening, “it’s hard to think about how our state is spending our money might be diabolically different from what we might consider maybe in our own family budgets or our corporate budgets.”

An emergency room physician, State Rep. Bill Hauter (R-Morton) is glad the legislature failed to pass an “end of life” bill.

“As a physician, we have an oath that we take very seriously,” he said. “We have had many debates in the Illinois State Medical Society, and a significant majority of physicians have come out against physician-assisted suicide.

“Our oath is” ‘First, do no harm.'”

State Sen. Sally Turner (pictured) (R-Beason) is displeased a gun storage bill passed.

“What it does, basically, is criminalize victims of theft by punishing these law-abiding gun owners who don’t report a stolen firearm within 48 hours and sometimes they have no way of knowing it is missing because maybe they have it in some other area that they don’t go to every 48 hours.”

Everything which passed, of course, awaits the governor’s action.