Schock believes 114th Congress will be good

Posted on December 29, 2014

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By Dave Dahl/Illinois Radio Network

SPRINGFIELD – The next two years should be better than the previous two on Capitol Hill, says U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Peoria).

“I hope we get more done,” Schock says. “My hope is that we can get into a position where we are negotiating with the president on a lot of the reforms in government that need to happen, that have festered too long under this president and prior presidents. That’s what the House attempted to do through what we call an open rule process. We allowed any member of Congress, down to the most junior member of the minority, to offer amendments, and if they were good ideas, they got adopted.”

Schock says the divided government of a Republican-controlled Congress and Democratic president should work better than what some called another “Do-Nothing Congress” of 2013-14.

He says the bipartisanship of the lame duck session might be a good preview of what he wants in the 114th Congress.

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