Jonathan Jackson was named to the House Foreign Affairs Committee along with Rep. Brad Schneider of Highland Park. Jackson also gong to agriculture committee along with Rep. Eric Sorensen and Rep. Mary Miller. Sorensen also going on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, along with Reps. Sean Casten of Downers Grove and Bill Foster. Rep. Delia Ramirez is joining the Homeland Security and Veterans’ Affairs committees. Ramirez and Budzinski will be joined on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee by a fellow Illinois member and new chairman of the committee, Republican Rep. Mike Bost as well as their Democratic colleague Rep. Lauren Underwood of Naperville. As Crain’s reported earlier this week, Rep. Jesús G. “Chuy” Garcia of Chicago is leaving the coveted House Financial Services Committee. He will keep his assignments on the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and natural resources committee
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.