A package of legislation aimed at ending a two-year Illinois budget standoff is back to the House.
The House convenes Wednesday to face action to override Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's vetoes of a $36 billion budget fueled by a $5 billion increase in income taxes.
The legislation bounced several times Tuesday. The Senate approved the budget plan and tax increase with a necessary three-fifths majority vote, but Rauner vetoed them three hours later.
The Senate then wasted no time in overriding the vetoes and sending them back to the House for consideration.
Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan of Chicago announced after the Senate action there wouldn't be a House vote but didn't say why.
But the House quorum call was answered by only 54 of its 118 members.
