As many Americans returned to work following the holiday break, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten of Downers Grove was in Washington and joining other Democratic members of Congress waiting to see how Republicans will settle their fight over the House speakership.
in the 1st District that winds from the South Side deep into the south suburbs. Rush was first elected in 1992.
While not making headway on the Democratic agenda is a problem for Casten, he told the Tribune in an interview Tuesday that what’s more“I think what makes a lot of us anxious is that when we look at so many of the bipartisan bills we passed in the last term, the Republican supporters of those bills, many of them are not coming back,” Casten said.
Locally, Casten said he plans to stick to what got him elected in the first place, despite the fact Pekau got over 45% of the vote districtwide after Casten blasted him last fall as “a complete coward who was endorsed by a hate organization and doesn’t have the dignity to say it” for Pekau’s support of the Awake Illinois group that opposed drag events in the suburbs that were canceled after threats and vandalism.
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