It’s very clear we have a responsibility to bring people together and not push them apart.

We are going to work directly with the pharmacies to make sure that people who fall into this situation don’t leave a pharmacy without the meds they need or pay more than they need to.

It makes sense that the funding should go where the problem is. The senator’s job and what he’s doing is making sure that what the Senate is doing is fair.

This enables us to ensure the vaccine we secured is being put to good use.

The governor is focused on passing the budget, and if all goes well, he will have directed $3.8 billion to education in four years, more than any other governor has done.

He’s done everything he’s supposed to do to step down.

The vendor provided the service that we asked and should be paid for it.

We’re reviewing it right now.

We want to thank him for his service to DNR and for many years before that to the people of the Quad Cities when he worked in the legislature. He has done a good job,...

The idea they have any advantage defies common sense.

We’re still looking at some (donation) options. The vaccine is still in storage in the United Kingdom.

Revenue is way up and we’ve cut costs in other areas, so we’re in a good position to do these things.

Our office is in regular contact with law enforcement on a wide range of issues, but we don’t talk about subpoenas because they are confidential.

In this case, we had the vaccine tested. It was found to still be potent for the 2004-2005 flu strain.

The importance of the findings is that the number of uninsured children is a reasonable number that we are in a position to fully cover.

We want to make sure we’re not putting people back onto the street who are going to commit crimes.

We respect the pharmacists’ rights to hold personal, moral, religious beliefs, but they can’t allow those beliefs to get in the way of serving their customers.

We wish they would’ve done it sooner or lowered drug prices.

We believe that will have a positive impact without (taking money away) from other programs.

His clients are treated like every other company that lobbies the state for business or policy changes.

The Chicago Public Schools have requested an additional $70-100 million in state funding. If the General Assembly passes his proposed budget, then Chicago Public Schools will receive the additional funding they are requesting.

Illinois faced a $5 billion deficit this year. The cost of prescription drugs is a major cost and it is going up 15 percent every year, and that is expected to continue until 2010.

His position would be the same. These are sort of back-door attempts to raise consumer rates.

We’ve had a number of meetings with different groups and individuals. It’s happened at the governor’s level as well as the staff level and took place as recently as yesterday.

We see a lot of merit in the bill, but it is a budget issue. It would have to be worked out as part of the budget process.