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House Speaker Paul Ryan long sought goal of overhauling welfare programs will get a kick-start when congress returns to work this week.

Joey McLaughlin talks about the new legislative session with  Illinois State Representative Sara Wojcicki Jimenez.

Joey McLaughlin talks about the University of Illinois seeking more money in the new state budget, and funding for higher education with University of Illinois Springfield Chancellor Susan Koch.

Joey McLaughlin talks with professor and chair of SIU’s Department of Internal Medicine and president of the American Society of Hypertension Specialist Board,  Dr. John Flack about a new clinical study to test a new high blood pressure treatment at the SIU School of Medicine.

After months of negotiation and stalled talks, the Trump administration hopes to announce a preliminary deal on NAFTA this month.

Show Date: April 8, 2018

Joey McLaughlin talks with the Executive Director of Governmental Affairs and Commodities  at the Illinois Farm Bureau, Mark Gebhards about how Illinois farmers are dealing with talk of tariffs on pork and soy beans.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Illinois State Representative Avery Bourne about the school funding money that is finally freed up to get to schools.

Joey McLaughlin talks with Nan Kording at the Illinois Times about what is going on around Central Illinois this weekend.

President Trump has been waging a war on Amazon lately, but as it turns out, the retail giant has a major customer…the federal government.