This afternoon, the Illinois House voted to override Gov. Rod Blagojevich's amendatory veto of the ethics legislation they passed earlier in the year. From the Daily Herald:
The 118-member Illinois House just voted 110-0 to reject the governor's changes to ethics legislation and reinstate the provisions as they were initially and overwhelmingly approved by the House and Senate. [...]
House sponsor John Fritchey, a Chicago Democrat, took the governor's proposals and filed them as new proposals. He then advanced the initial plan that was overwhelmingly approved.
“This bill has seen more hurdles than the Beijing Olympics,” Fritchey said of the ethics plan.
For more on the governor's proposed changes, check out our backgrounder from yesterday.
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