| 词条 | Barbara Flynn Currie |
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|name = Barbara Flynn Currie |image = Barbara Flynn Currie 2010 CROPPED.jpg |office = Majority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives |term_start = January 8, 1997 |term_end = January 9, 2019 |predecessor = Bob Churchill |successor = Greg Harris |office1 = Member of the Illinois House of Representatives |constituency1 = 24th district (1979-1983) 26th district (1983-1993) 25th district (1993-2019) |term_start1 = January 1979 |term_end1 = January 2019 |predecessor1 = Lewis A. H. Caldwell |successor1 = Curtis Tarver |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|5|3}} |birth_place = La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = Democratic |spouse = David Currie |education = University of Chicago {{small|(BA, MA)}} }}Barbara Flynn Currie (born May 3, 1940) was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 2019. She served as the Majority Leader from 1997 to 2019. Flynn Currie’s forty years as a member of the Illinois General Assembly is the longest tenure of any woman to serve in the Illinois General Assembly.[1] Personal life and educationBarbara attended the University of Chicago Lab School, graduating in 1958. She graduated from the College at the university in 1968 with honors before earning a master's degree in political science in 1973.[2] She is a member of the Chicago League of Women Voters, the Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership, Women United for South Shore, and the Board of the ACLU of Illinois. She is active in many civic, community, and environmental organizations.[3] On September 14, 2017, she announced she would not stand for reelection in 2018.[4] Political careerCurrie was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1978, and assumed office in January 1979. She represented the Districts in Chicago which included the communities of Woodlawn, South Shore, Hyde Park, and Kenwood. Currie served as majority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives, a role from 1997 to 2019.[5] She is the widow of the legal scholar David P. Currie. {{citation needed|date=December 2014}} Impeachment of Rod BlagojevichIn December 2008, following the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Currie was named by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan as the chairperson of the Illinois House committee to investigate Governor Blagojevich for possible impeachment as a result of federal corruption charges against him.[6] Blagojevich was subsequently impeached by the House and removed from office by the Illinois Senate. Burris controversyIn February 2009, Currie was caught in a follow-on controversy over the impeachment testimony of Roland Burris. Burris had been named by Blagojevich to fill President Barack Obama's Senate seat, after the emergence of the corruption charges against Blagojevich but before Blagojevich's removal from office. Burris had neglected to mention fund-raising contacts by Blagojevich's brother, Robert, in his testimony, but then filed an affidavit with Currie, listing three such contacts, shortly after February 5, 2009.[7] Word of the new information did not reach the public, or the Republicans in the House, until its release in the Chicago Sun-Times on February 13, leading to questions of Currie and the Democrats by Republicans including ranking impeachment committee member Jim Durkin and House party leader Tom Cross.[7] State employee pensionsRepresentative Currie supported SB-1; a plan that amended state employee pension plans by drastically reducing the constitutionally protected benefits of Illinois state employees in retirement.[8] The Illinois Supreme Court ultimately found these legislative changes to be unconstitutional.[9] As the Illinois Supreme Court ruling stated: "These modifications to pension benefits unquestionably diminish the value of the retirement annuities the members…were promised when they joined the pension system. Accordingly, based on the plain language of the Act, these annuity-reducing provisions contravene the pension protection clause's absolute prohibition against diminishment of pension benefits and exceed the General Assembly's authority," [10]References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Musser|first1=Ashley|last2=Dutton|first2=Julie|title=Illinois Women in Congress and General Assembly|date=February 11, 2016|publisher=Illinois Legislative Research Unit|location=Springfield, Illinois|accessdate=January 22, 2019|url=http://ilga.gov/commission/lru/FemaleLegislators.pdf}} 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Flynn Currie|first1=Barbara|title=State Representative|url=https://www.uchicagoalumni.org/directory.html|website=University of Chicago Alumni Directory}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Flynn Currie|first1=Barbara|title=State Representative|url=http://www.facebook.com/barbara|website=Facebook|accessdate=September 27, 2017}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://capitolfax.com/2017/09/14/leader-currie-to-retire-at-end-of-term/|title=Leader Currie to retire at end of term|last=Miller|first=Rich|newspaper=Capitol Fax|date=September 14, 2017|accessdate=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915073939/https://capitolfax.com/2017/09/14/leader-currie-to-retire-at-end-of-term/|archive-date=2017-09-15|dead-url=yes|df=}} 5. ^{{Cite news |url=https://www.sj-r.com/news/20190226/barbara-flynn-currie-to-get-first-woman-legislator-of-year-award |title=Barbara Flynn Currie to get first Woman Legislator of the Year award |last=Buchman |first=Cassie |date=February 26, 2019 |work=The State Journal-Register |access-date=2019-02-28 |language=en}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/illinois_house_speaker_mike_ma.html|title=Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, Majority leader Barbara Flynn Currie on Blagojevich impeachment. Transcript|accessdate=2008-12-16|date=2008-12-15|publisher=Sun-Times News Group|work=Chicago Sun-Times|author=Sweet, Lynn|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217140535/http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/illinois_house_speaker_mike_ma.html|archivedate= December 17, 2008|deadurl=no}} 7. ^1 Monica Davey, [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/us/politics/16burris.html?hp "Burris Defends His Evolving Description of Talks"] The New York Times, p. A9, February 16, 2009; accessed December 11, 2014. 8. ^http://votesmart.org/bill/votes/46516 9. ^http://www.Chicago {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728182712/http://chicago/ |date=2013-07-28 }} tribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-pension-law-court-ruling-2015050 10. ^http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/pension-reforms-illinois-supreme-court/ External links
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