Illinois veto session set for week after election – Center Square

Legislation to address Illinois’ Tier II pension benefits to conform with Social Security limits has been discussed for months. State Sen. Robert Martwick said that’s a tall order to tackle: "Well it’s like, ‘oh, we can get it done.’ There’s an election in November. ‘OK, so after the election,’ well no, then we’ll be at veto and you can’t really do it while you’re there so we’ll get past veto and then we’ll start working on it. ‘Oh wait, that next week is Thanksgiving and then it’s Thanksgiving to Christmas and we can work on it after Christmas before New Year’s.’ We’re supposed to be in lame duck in early January. So, there’s not a lot of time.”