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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD)– 17th District State Representative Eric Sorensen toured the 182nd Airlift Wing in Peoria on Friday afternoon.
This comes after the Air Force announced in June that the Illinois Air National Guard’s TACP group and the Air Force band will be decommissioned from the base.
Bloomington-Normal has nearly $2.7 million in potential projects included in a U.S. House appropriations bill that has advanced from a subcommittee to the full appropriations committee.
BLOOMINGTON — U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Rockford, announced the inclusion of roughly $4.6 million Central Illinois infrastructure projects into pending appropriations bills.
For years, the lock and dam system on the Mississippi River has been falling into disrepair. The system was created under President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and has been instrumental in bringing agricultural goods and products from other industries, from the Midwest, down the Mississippi, to be exported around the world.
Congresspersons Eric Sorensen (D-17) and Darin LaHood (R-16) both support the $75 million dollars allotted in the US FY2024 budget. This is the House Energy and Appropriations Bill, which will help infrastructure in Illinois rivers and the Mississippi River which upgrade navigation.
Rep. Eric Sorensen brings a rare resume to Congress. The freshman lawmaker, who represents part of the Quad Cities area of Illinois, is, by his own accounting, the first former television meteorologist in Congress in more than four decades. (The last one was Rep. Dale Milford (D-Texas), who left in 1979.)
Today, Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) and Ranking Member Mark Takano (CA-39) introduced the Autonomy for All Disabled Veterans Act, which will help disabled veterans make accessibility improvements to their homes.
When Eric Sorensen wanted to start talking about climate change while delivering the weather forecast in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa, it wasn’t an easy lift.
The Illinois Democrat said he heard a lot of “hell, no” from management at his television station, WREX.
U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen addressed several topics during a telephone town hall Tuesday ranging from prescription drug costs and veterans care to the national debt ceiling and law enforcement training.
Sorensen, a Moline Democrat, answered questions from constituents from throughout the 17th District, including Morrison, Moline, Canton, Peoria, Bloomington, Rockford and Mendota.
