Speaker Welch looks to enhance or expand the House Democratic supermajority as GOP digs in for general election
House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch greets people after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill restricting the sale and possession of unserialized firearms, also known as ghost guns, on May 18, 2022, in Chicago.
Welch, a Hillside Democrat, took over as speaker in January 2021 when then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, who holds the nationwide record for 36 years as speaker, failed to extend his reign once a bloc of 19 mostly female House Democrats refused to back him.
Democrats currently hold a 73-45 majority in the House, a margin that Madigan, a master of the closed-door remapping process, had helped build while still in power. Harmon’s Democratic troops hold an overwhelming 41-18 majority. To break the supermajorities, Republicans would need to win at least three seats in the House in November, a potentially doable gain, and Senate Republicans led by Minority Leader Dan McConchie of Hawthorn Woods would need to pick up six seats, a much steeper climb, during the general election.
Abdelnasser Rashid, right, Democrat running for the Illinois House, talks with Berwyn resident Angel Avalos as Rashid campaigns door to door on June 8, 2022.
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