Springfield, IL… State Representative David Friess offered this statement on the Democrat’s state budget passed Monday on a party-line vote: “The FY 2022 State budget that was just rammed through…

Springfield, IL… On Saturday, the Illinois House of Representatives approved House Resolution 226 calling upon the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) to reopen their public-access public employment offices to…

Legislative Maps Pass the House This past week, we saw a lot of activity surrounding the drawing of the new legislative districts. Democrats dropped the first map late afternoon on…

IDES and Governor Pritzker’s Failure On Thursday, my colleagues, Reps. Ugaste, McLaughlin, Elik, and Sosnowski held a press conference to highlight the continued failure of the Pritzker Administration to fix…

Springfield, IL…State Representative David Friess (R-Red Bud) offered the following statement about the ongoing crisis with IDES: “We are now 14 months into a pandemic. With this week’s news of…

LaSalle Veterans Home This week, the Veterans Affairs Committee held hearings on last fall’s COVID outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home. The outbreak, which killed 36 of our veterans, was…

SPRINGFIELD… With the first spring session of the 102nd General Assembly quickly heading toward the final stretch, State Representative David Friess (R-Red Bud) is working hard to advance legislation that…

Governor Pritzker Visits Sparta On Tuesday, Governor Pritzker visited the district to announce a new mobile vaccination site at the Worldwide Shooting and Recreation Complex in Sparta. He followed the…

Governor Pritzker Flip Flops on Fair Maps In 2018, then governor candidate J.B. Pritzker was asked, “Will you pledge as governor to veto any state legislative map proposal that is…

First Bill Passes out of the House My first piece of legislation has passed out of the House. HB1755 allows the Kaskaskia Regional Port District, and similar port districts throughout the state,…