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inued. "They don't get paid if they don't do their jobs. And neither should members of the General Assembly."Quinn had previously defended the move as constitutional. Last week Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka said she had no choice but to withhold lawmaker paychecks, citing a previous court case. Quinn's office had no immediate comment on Tuesday.In their statement, Cullerton and Madigan called Quinn's actions "an unconstitutional attempt to coerce the Legislature to comply with his demands."They said that to ignore the governor's actions or override the veto would "severely and irrevocably compromise the independence of the Legislature and set a very dangerous precedent."Bill Daley, President Obama's former Chief of Staff who on Monday declared he will run for governor agreed, referring to the Quinn's act as a "side show" that is "hurting our school kids and stands in the way of creating jobs."Illinois has unprecedented pension debt because for years lawmakers have either skipped or shorted payments to the state's five retirement systems. Quinn has made reforming the system his top priority for about two years, but attempts to find a solution have largely gone nowhere.The Associated Press contributed to this report
re hospitals. We should be able to build a hospital, especially when we have people coming home from war and they've got all kinds of problems, from psychological to missing body parts.The project's general contractor, Kiewit-Turner, blames the VA in a complaint filed with the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals. It says the VA has changed the design of the facility numerous times and that those changes have been, "...increasingly complex, included fewer cost reductions than expected, significantly increased the scope of the work, and made the budget problem worse rather than better."Kiewit-Turner, which says its profit margin has long since disappeared, is now projecting a 2016 opening with a total cost of $1 billion. It says if the VA doesnt accept the increase, it wants out.It's going through a legal dispute resolution administratively between the contractor and the Veterans Administration," explains Coffman. "They (Kiewit-Turner) say that either there is going to be a realization that the true costs are going to be paid for the facility (or) they want to quit the project."If the general contractor were allowed to quit, the project could effectively come to a halt."So meantime," columnist Lewis points out, "we've got wars winding down all over the world and there are people coming home and I don't think they're being properly serviced by any of these medical centers. What are we telling people in the future about military service wh
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