SPRINGFIELD - The following statement is attributable to Lance Trover, Director of Communications:

"As we approach the end of the month, Speaker Madigan and the politicians he controls have one final chance to side with Republicans and make a clean up or down vote on stopping themselves from getting an automatic pay increase.  After passing a $4 billion unbalanced budget and refusing to work with Governor Rauner on turning this state around, the last thing the Speaker and his allies deserve is a pay raise.  That is why the Speaker should call up the Republican bill - without any poison pills or gimmicks - that will stop him and the politicians he controls from receiving a pay raise."

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